pileus
noun
the horizontal portion of a mushroom, bearing gills, tubes, etc., on its underside; a cap.
pilei
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pluralof pileus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The pilei are imbricated, fibrous, scaly, margin fimbriated, at first dirty white.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Next to the Warden, on each side, are two figures in sleeveless copes, tippets and pilei, without hoods—doctors in theology or degrees.
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
From the thirteenth century onwards pilei, and the overtopping tufts, were of various colours according to the faculties which it was intended to distinguish.
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
P. up to 1 cm. convex, papillate, grey, subtomentose; g. adnate; s. 3-5 cm. base dark, springing from a blackish sclerotium; several minute stems with abortive pilei often spring from the stem; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The pilei are pulvinate, narrow, zoned, often laterally confluent; ochraceous-white, tomentose, then smooth, laccate.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
