boletus
noun
any mushroomlike fungus of the genus Boletus, having an easily separable layer of tubes on the underside of the cap or pileus.
boleti
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pluralof boletus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Was that the devil's toadstool, which the schoolmaster had marked on the board at school as poisonous, or was it one of the dainty boleti edules, which her father liked so much?
From Absolution by Clara Viebig
On leaving Neuvic I noticed a woman carrying to the baker's a large dish of edible boleti, known to the French as cépes.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
The variety of small, beautifully-shaped ferns, lichens, and boleti, made the place quite a museum of cryptogamic plants.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
Boleti in Brown Sauce.—Wash and dry the boleti; remove the pores; cut them into small pieces.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
There is a family of fungi called the boleti, sir, and you can easily tell them, because they are all full of pores, or little holes, underneath, while the ordinary agarics have gills like this.”
From The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn
