Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun partial_veil

1 sense of partial veil

Sense 1
partial veil -- (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)
       => veil, velum -- (a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms)