PARTIAL VEIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does partial veil mean? 

• PARTIAL VEIL (noun)
  The noun PARTIAL VEIL has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PARTIAL VEIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTIAL VEIL (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

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Nouns denoting plants

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)