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Receptacular :: Receptacular (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower..

Ramenta :: Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns..

Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..

Scale :: Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns..

Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..

Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..

Wheatbird :: Wheatbird (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch..

Winnow :: Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.

Winnew :: Winnew (n.) To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain..

Chaffered :: Chaffered (imp. & p. p.) of Chaffe.

Whitewing :: Whitewing (n.) The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.

Chaffless :: Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.

Chaffinch :: Chaffinch (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch..

Paleous :: Paleous (a.) Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.

Spinnaker :: Spink (n.) The chaffinch.

Higgle :: Higgle (v. i.) To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle.

Wheatsel Bird :: Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff..

Chaffing :: Chaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaf.

Shrape :: Shrape (n.) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.

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