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PARTIAL VEIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth; represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("partial veil" is a kind of...):
veil; velum (a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms)
Meronyms (parts of "partial veil"):
annulus; skirt ((Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "partial veil"):
cortina (a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils)
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