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Meaning of "pileus"
pileus (noun) - A type of hat, often conical in shape, worn in ancient Rome as a symbol of freedom, given to a freed slave upon gaining liberty
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- The cap of a mushroom.
- The bell of a jellyfish.
- A small thin cloud attached to a cumulus cloud.
- A conical felt hat worn in Ancient Rome and Greece.
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The pileus cap is often red in color.
He wears a white pileus on his head.
Pileus covered with squamules.
In these cases the pileus is termed infundibuliform.
The name means naked pileus.
The most familiar pileus shape is hemispherical or convex.
Pileus area index.
Cumulonimbus with pileus.
Sometimes several pileus clouds are observed above each other.
The pore covering is easy to remove from the skin of the pileus.
Several pileus clouds may fairly often be observed in superposition.
The bright iridescent colors seen in pileus are sunlight diffracted in water vapor.
The color of these ridges is usually similar to the pileus but paler.
Strong updrafts may form pileus or thin vertical stripes protruding upwards out of the cloud.
The pileipellis is the uppermost layer of hyphae in the pileus of a fungal fruit body.
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Pileus occurs principally with Cumulus and Cumulonimbus.
Photo of the hygrophanous pileus of Panaeolina foenisecii.
When mature, the ganoderma spores are ejected from the pileus.
Above the cloud, velum or pileus are often seen.
A cap-like pileus cloud is visible atop the rising column.
Firma is similar but it has dark-brown pileus and lacks of mealy odour.
The term " circumcystidia " is coined for pileocystidia largely confined to a band around the pileus margin.
Mutations in these genes affect pileus and stipe formation, respectively.
Pileus Small cap-like cloud over parent cumulus cloud.
For example, a cumulonimbus cloud with a pileus attached to it would be called " cumulonimbus with pileus.
It looked like the cap worn by freed Roman slaves, the pileus or liberty cap.
The pileus margin is furrowed-striated.
Clouds that are attached to pilei are often given the suffix " pileus " or " with pileus.
A pileus is characteristic of agarics, boletes, some polypores, tooth fungi, and some ascomycetes.
In so doing, he avoided a reference to Marianne, who invariably wears a pileus.
Video - Video of pileus clouds.
Pileus small, well-pigmented or not.
Head of Odysseus wearing a pileus depicted on a 3rd-century BC coin from Ithaca.
Pileus ( species calvus only ), small cap-like cloud over parent cumulonimbus.
LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and scepter, S-C across fields.
This, in turn, probably derives from common pileus ( brimless hat ) worn by the laity.
