pileus
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pileus
n. cap of a mushroom (Botany)

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pileus

Noun
1. a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
(synonym) cap
(hypernym) plant part, plant structure
(part-holonym) fungus


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Pileus
(n.)
The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.
  
 
(n.)
The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.
  
 
(n.)
A kind of skull cap of felt.
  

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N M
felt cap (worn at Saturnalia/by manumited slaves); freedom/liberty; beret


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