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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

peronatus

rough-booted, fr.

pero

-onis

, a kind of rough boot.]

(Bot.)

A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery.

Henslow.

peronate ‎(comparative more peronate, superlative most peronate)