pileateadj.
/ˈpʌɪlɪət/, /ˈpɪlɪət/, U.S. /ˈpaɪliət/, /ˈpɪliət/ Chiefly Mycology.
Esp. of a fungus: having a cap or pileus (pileus n. 2).
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umbonated1752
operculate1775
veiled1776
adnexed1821
pileate1828
sorediferous1829
umbonate1829
floccose1830
adglutinate1831
angiosporous1847
stylosporous1851
byssoid1857
mycelioid1857
sclerotioid1857
soredioid1857
pileiform1858
basidiosporous1859
pileated1859
sorediform1859
tigellular1860
tetradymous1866
tigellate1866
mycelial1867
xylostromatoid1871
hymenial1874
hyphal1875
aecidial1876
pycnidial1877
teleutosporic1880
sorediate1881
pollinodial1886
peridial1887
promycelial1887
mycelian1891
uredosporiferous1895
uredosporous1895
hemiangiocarpous1900
uredinial1900
periplasmic1901
hemiangiocarpic1902
wefted1902
zygophoric1904
aecial1905
pycnial1905
telial1905
sporodochial1913
holocarpic1916
uredinoid1929
uredial1937
monokaryotic1941
protoperithecial1948
parathecial1953
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pileate, Pileated, having the form of a cap or covering for the head.
1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 105 Cuscuta..chilensis... Flowers 5-cleft, Segments oblate rounded, Anthers sessile, Stigmas pileate.
1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 56 The Discomycetes are of two kinds, the pileate and the cup-shaped.
1920 Bot. Gaz. 69 41 Forest floor pileate forms are characteristically present, but individually not very abundant.
1971 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 58 554/1 Volvariella volvacea is a large pileate fungus with a dark gray cap.
2003 Mycological Res. 107 93 A key to neotropical Perenniporia species with pileate basidiomes is presented.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1828