Definition of "palay" []

• A tree, Wrightia tinctoria: its leaves afford the pala-indigo, an article inferior to the genuine indigo. See ivory-tree. Also pala. (noun)
• A high-climbing plant, Cryptostegia grandiflora, of the Asclepiadaceæ, cultivated in India and elsewhere. Its fiber is fine, strong, and fiax-like, and its milky juice contains a caoutchouc. (noun)
• In the Philippine Islands, rice in the husk. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Cha-kon 'is the season of rice or "palay" growth and harvest, and Ka-sip' is the remainder of the year."
• ""palay" crop in May; in 1903 this was until May 2."
• "It is used for corn in the dry months and for palay (paddy rice) during the rainy season."