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Webster 1913 Edition


Peronate

Per′o-nate

,
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.