📖 Definitions of "Pileus"
noun
- 1
The cap of a mushroom.
- 2
The bell of a jellyfish.
- 3
A small thin cloud attached to a cumulus cloud.
- 4
A conical felt hat worn in Ancient Rome and Greece.
🔄 Synonyms of "Pileus"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| capnoun | A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked. |
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| capnoun | A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked. |
| cuticlenoun | The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail. |
| fleshy | Of, related to, or resembling flesh. |
| convexnoun | Any convex body or surface. |
| pleurobrachia | a common genus of Ctenophora (an exclusively marine phylum). |
| pileipellisnoun | (mycology) The uppermost layer of hyphae in the pileus of a fungal fruit body. |
| apiculusnoun | (mycology) The part of a spore which attaches to the sterigmata at the end of a basidium. |
| peridiolenoun | (mycology) A lens-shaped capsule of spores that grows in cups of some kinds of fungi. |
| peridiumnoun | (mycology) The outer layer that covers the spore-bearing organ in many fungi. |
| pelliclenoun | A thin skin or film. |
| bonnetnoun | A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin. |
| umbonoun | (historical) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike. |
| pedicelnoun | (botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster. |
| pycniumnoun | The body of a fungus that produces pycniospores |
| basal tuberclenoun | (mycology) A fleshy mass of tissue located at the junction of the a mushroom and its substrate. |
| capitulumnoun | (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base. |
| peridermiumnoun | (mycology) A blister-shaped aecium found in some fungi. |
| pyreniumnoun | (mycology) The wall of the perithecium. |
| basal tomentumnoun | (mycology) The mycelium at the base of a mushroom's stem. |
| bottle capnoun | Any of several designs of closure used to seal bottles. |
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