boletus pallidus

1. 1.

   a fungus that has an off-white cap when it is young but later becomes dingy brown and a stalk of the same color; the under surface of the cap (the tubes) a pale greenish yellow

   Broaderbolete

   Part ofBoletus

Questions about boletus pallidus

What does boletus pallidus mean?

boletus pallidus means "a fungus that has an off-white cap when it is young but later becomes dingy brown and a stalk of the same color; the under surface of the cap (the tubes) a pale greenish yellow".

Is boletus pallidus a common word?

boletus pallidus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.