paleaceous

From Latin palea (“chaff”) +‎ -aceous.

paleaceous (comparative more paleaceous, superlative most paleaceous)

1. (archaic, botany) chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff

   a paleaceous receptacle

• “paleaceous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.