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bolete, n. Mycol.
Brit. |ˈbɒliːt|, U.S. |ˈbɑlit|
[‹ classical Latin bōlētus boletus n. Compare earlier bolet n.]
Any fungus of the genus Boletus, family Boletaceae, or order Boletales, comprising basidiomycetes with fruiting bodies (mushrooms and toadstools) that have pores rather than gills, and including many edible species. Freq. with distinguishing word.
1914W. A. Murrill (title) American boletes. 1949V. Nabokov in New Yorker 9 Apr. 35 It is..to the lowly and ugly agarics that nations with timorous taste buds limit their knowledge and appetite, so that to the Anglo-American lay mind the aristocratic boletes are, at best, reformed toadstools. 1986Bull. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 20 28 Over one hundred fungi were found of which the uncommon larch bolete, Fuscoboletinus aeruginascens, was common. 1998Wildlife News (Berks., Bucks. & Oxon. Naturalists' Trust) Jan. 5/2 It was the best year ever for Devil's bolete (Boletus satanus), one of our rarest Red Data fungi, when over 100 appeared in Blenheim Park in Oxfordshire. |