chaffy

The bracts of the flower heads have a green centre, and chaffy brown edges.

The huge fragments of rock are like 'chaffy grain beneath the threshing flail'.

The wheezing was still present, but the height of his house in Petra camp had meant some relief from the chaffy dust.

The name is derived from palea (chaff), referring to the chaffy receptacle.

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:

The flowers of G. sarothrae are pollinated by various insects, resulting in an oval fruit covered with chaffy scales.

It often bears a long bristle called an awn, and may be similar in form to the glumes - chaffy bracts at the base of each spikelet.

A mighty fountain momently was forced Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.

Its scale is discarded between 'huge fragments' and 'chaffy grain', and man's influence is denied ('like rebounding hail') and yet acknowledged ('the thresher's flail').

Tectura palacea, common names the "surfgrass limpet" or "chaffy limpet", also spelled "chaffey limpet", is a species of small sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae.

Did Octavian have asthma, it makes everything that happened to him during that campaign in Macedonia logical, including his fleeing to the sea breezes and cleaner air of the salt marshes while dry ground was fogged by a suffocating pall of chaffy dust.