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.