Peronate

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peronate \Per"o*nate\, a. [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.
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