pileate

American  

[pahy-lee-it, -eyt, pil-ee-] / ˈpaɪ li ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈpɪl i- /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. having a pileus.

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pileate British  

/ ˈpɪl-, ˈpɪl-, ˈpaɪlɪɪt, ˈpaɪlɪˌeɪtɪd, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

1. (of birds) having a crest

2. botany having a pileus

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Etymology

Origin of pileate

First recorded in 1820–30, pileate is from the Latin word pīleātus capped. See pileus, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

In the pileate forms, the stroma is fleshy and highly developed; in the cup-shaped, it is reduced to the external cells of the cup which enclose the hymenium.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Terrestrial.Phalloide�.—Hymenium deliquescent and slimy; receptacle pileate; volva universal.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

The Discomycetes are of two kinds, the pileate and the cup-shaped.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Of the pileate such a genus as Gyromitra or Helvella is, in a certain sense, analogous to the Agarics amongst Hymenomycetes, with a superior instead of an inferior hymenium, and enclosed, not naked, spores.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

In some the receptacle is pileate, clavate, or inflated, whilst in Stictis it is very much reduced, and in the lowest form of all, Ascomyces, it is entirely absent.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)