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Definition of Chaffy

1. Adjective. Abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff.

Definition of Chaffy

1. a. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.

Definition of Chaffy

1. Adjective. Like or containing chaff. ¹

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Definition of Chaffy

1. worthless [adj CHAFFIER, CHAFFIEST] - See also: worthless

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaffy

Literary usage of Chaffy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... lower side wedge-form at the base; the upper fruit bearing ones smaller: stipe and rachis chaffy: fruit-dots solitary, but at length becoming confluent. ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... alme and chaffy-dilated only near the base; the palcic much laciniate. ... 3 line» long : subulate chaffy awns only twice the length of the laciniate ..."

3. Familiar Lectures on Botany: Explaining the Structure, Classification, and by Lincoln Phelps (1854)
"Involucre many-leaved, flat, pub-equal ; rays 3-cleft, widening toward the top ; receptacle bristly, hemispherical; egret chaffy ..."

4. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1837)
"Calyx 1-leafed, many parted ; egret 5-awned, chaffy leaves; receptacle globose, naked in the disk, and chaffy in the ray only ; florets of the ray half ..."

5. Visitation of England and Wales by Joseph Jackson Howard, England College of arms (1907)
"As I the said John chaffy the Elder have absoloutely and of my owne accord set and put in further Testimony : And I doe Order & Desire my well beloved Sonn ..."

6. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"Receptacle chaffy, at least hi part : raye ligulate 51. ... Receptacle columnar or top-shaped, chaffy. Pappus of the inner flowers capillary, ..."

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