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Pileus   Listen
noun
Pileus  n.  (pl. pilei)  
1.
(Rom. Antiq.) A kind of skull cap of felt.
2.
(Bot.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.
3.
(Zool.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.





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"Pileus" Quotes from Famous Books



... species occasionally sold in Covent-Garden Market, London. When mature, it has a soft, convex, moist, smooth pileus, with a solid, somewhat bulbous stem, tinted with lilac. The gills are dirty-white, and ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr
... gave him immortality. Henceforward, did a slave obtain a few kind words from his master over his wine? he was a Junian Latin. Was he described as 'filius meus' in a public document? Junian Latin. Did he wear the cap of liberty, the pileus, at his master's funeral? Junian Latin. Did he disembowel his master's corpse? Junian Latin, once more, ...
— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin
... kill him! I was fond of him—I was even going to give him gold and have put upon him the pileus of a freedman, for he hath served me well. He had belonged to Constantia, my wife. Perhaps it was I who was mad to-night. Sometimes I have thought—I must ask Claudius if there is prospect of that—" He broke off. "Pardon! I forgot, and thought aloud. To-morrow I shall be myself, but to-night I ...
— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor


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