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Word Meanings - MOREL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An edible fungus , the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces.

Related words: (words related to MOREL)

  • PITTLE-PATTLE
    To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. Latimer.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • EDIBLENESS
    Suitableness for being eaten.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • UPPERMOST
    Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
  • PITTED
    Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue. (more info) 1. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • PITTA
    Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidæ. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are
  • FLAVORED
    Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • FLAVORLESS
    Without flavor; tasteless.
  • UPPERTENDOM
    The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • PITTACAL
    A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • COVERCHIEF
    A covering for the head. Chaucer.
  • COVERTLY
    Secretly; in private; insidiously.
  • COVER
    operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • SPITTLY
    Like spittle; slimy.
  • INCREDIBLENESS
    Incredibility.
  • LICK-SPITTLE
    An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • EUPITTONIC
    Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.
  • DISCOVERABLE
    Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
  • SPITTER
    One who ejects saliva from the mouth.

 

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