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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth; represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

partial veil
    n 1: membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms
         extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is
         ruptured by growth; represented in mature mushroom by an
         annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the
         margin of the cap