Translingual

Boletus edulis

Proper noun

Boletus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Boletaceae – boletes.

Usage notes

• Formerly included all mushrooms with pores
• Current circumscription is paraphyletic, including many hundreds of mushrooms
• A monophyletic grouping, Boletus sect. Boletus, contains about a hundred species

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Fungi – kingdom; Dikarya – subkingdom; Basidiomycota – phylum; Agaricomycotina - subphylum; Agaricomycetes - class; Agaricomycetidae - subclass; Boletales - order; Boletaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Boletus edulis - type species; Boletus pinophilus, Boletus retuculatus, Boletus separans and Boletus aereus - selected other species; for other species see List of Boletus species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia and Boletus at MycoBank

English

boletus

Noun

boletus ‎(plural boletuses or boleti)

1. An edible type of mushroom.

Synonyms

• bolete, porcini

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βωλίτης ‎(bōlítēs)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /boːˈleː.tus/, [boːˈɫeː.tʊs]

Noun

bōlētus m ‎(genitive bōlētī); second declension

1. porcini, an edible kind of mushroom (the most valued kind)

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• bōlētāria

Descendants

See also

• fungus

References

• boletus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• boletus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “boletus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.