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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom;
[syn: cap, pileus]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pileus \Pi"le*us\, n.; pl. Pilei. [L., a felt cap.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A kind of skull cap of felt. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zool.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pileus n 1: a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom [syn: cap, pileus]