UNIVERSAL VEIL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Membrane initially completely investing the young sporophore of various mushrooms that is ruptured by growth; represented in the mature mushroom by a volva around lower part of stem and scales on upper surface of the cap

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("universal veil" is a kind of...):

veil; velum (a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms)

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