different between dewlap vs palea

English

Etymology

Dew, of unknown meaning and origin, + Old English læppa (“a loose hanging piece”)

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?du.læp/, /?dju.læp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?dju?.læp/

Noun

dewlap (plural dewlaps)

1. The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal.
   • 1901 – 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

     Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.

2. The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person.
   • 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Midwinter Break', Chapter 2, at p.36:

     He ended up looking at himself in the mirror. His image stared back at him. He was developing a dewlap - a definite dewlap. He waggled under his chin scornfully with his fingers.

Coordinate terms

• dewclaw - same first root element, "dew"

Translations

Anagrams

• pawled

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæl??/, /?pe?l??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pal??/, /?pe?l??/

Noun

palea (plural paleae or pales)

1. (botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
2. (botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• palae, palae-, palæ-

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Cognate with puls, pulvis, pollen, Sanskrit ???? (pal?va, “chaff”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (pleva), Russian ?????? (polova), and Lithuanian pelus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa.le.a/, [?pä??eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.le.a/, [?p??l??]

Noun

palea f (genitive paleae); first declension

1. (usually in the plural) chaff.
2. The wattles or gills of a cock.
3. dross
4. husk
5. straw

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (chaff): pill? (Mediaeval)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• palea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• palea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• palea in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 802

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?lea/, [pa?le.a]

Verb

palea

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of palear.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of palear.