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chaffy

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  1. 1. a. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Light or worthless as chaff. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers. Source: opted
  5. 5. adj. abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff Source: wordnet
  6. 6. 1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge. 2. Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill. 3. (Bot.) (a) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. (b) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers. Source: webster
  7. 7. a. abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff s. value Source: ecdict

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