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nounmaterial consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seedstype of:
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verbbe silly or tease one another
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nounfoil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasuretype of:
Definition that contains chaff
- screen separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- riddle separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- sifting the act of separating grain from chaff
- chaffy abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff
- winnow the act of separating grain from chaff
- winnow separate the chaff from grain by using air currents
- winnowing the act of separating grain from chaff
- fringilla type genus of the Fringillidae: chaffinch, brambling
- aspleniaceae one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Asplenium, Pleurosorus, Schaffneria
- prickly shield fern North American fern whose more or less evergreen leathery fronds are covered with pale brown chafflike scales