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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Botany The umbrellalike fruiting structure forming the top of a stalked fleshy fungus, such as a mushroom; the cap.
  2. n. A brimless round skullcap worn by ancient Romans.
  3. n. See caul.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Among the ancient Romans, a conical cap or hat of felt; a cap or skullcap.
  2. n. In botany, the expanded cap-like or umbrella-like summit of the stipe, bearing the hymenium, in hymenomycetous fungi: same as cap, 2 . See cuts under Agaricus and Fungi.
  3. n. In ornithology, same as pileum.
  4. n. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of echinoderms.
  5. n. A nipple-shield.
  6. n. The disk or umbrella of a jellyfish.

Wiktionary

  1. n. the cap of a mushroom.
  2. n. the bell of a jellyfish
  3. n. meteorology a small thin cloud attached to a cumulus cloud. A cap cloud
  4. n. a conical felt hat worn in ancient Rome and Greece
  5. n. The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom

Etymologies

  1. Latin pileus ("a felt cap"). (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin pīleus, from Latin, cap. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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