Plant Scale Crossword Clue

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	noun • The interior chaff or husk of grasses. • One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower. • A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
	25%	10		Scale-like plant leaves
	noun • a reduced or scarcely developed leaf at the start of a plant's life (i.e., cotyledons) or in the early stages of leaf development
	25%	11		Small-scale plant life
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1	A cereal or other cultivated plant; said plant’s collective seasonal harvest or vintage; an abundance of something , such as hair; an end cut off; a finial; a fowl’s craw; or, a whip Telegraph Giant General Knowledge - 09 Sep 2023	Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 09 Sep 2023
2	From the Old English for “flower- head, ear of corn”, a cultivated plant on a large scale collectively; or, a season’s harvest, vintage or yield Telegraph Giant General Knowledge - 03 Jun 2023	Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 03 Jun 2023
3	His scale was initially known as the centigrade scale
4	Large-scale work, or a small-scale piece about nothing The Guardian Cryptic - 31 Jan 2014	The Guardian Cryptic / 31 Jan 2014
5	Moving around top of plant, seek to attract plant tissue The Guardian Cryptic - 30 Sep 2009	The Guardian Cryptic / 30 Sep 2009
6	Plant matter used as a plant covering New York Times - 09 Nov 1984	New York Times / 09 Nov 1984
7	Species in this family include the San Jose scale and the California red scale

Grass bract

Part of a sunflower

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