Definitions for Boletus

Boletus bo·le·tus

Spelling: [boh-lee-tuh s]
IPA: /boʊˈli təs/

Boletus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in Boletus (belostu).

Definitions for Boletus

noun

  1. any mushroomlike fungus of the genus Boletus, having an easily separable layer of tubes on the underside of the cap or pileus.

Origin of Boletus

1595-1605; New Latin; Latin bōlētus a mushroom

Examples for Boletus

The club-footed boletus is very closely related to B. edulis.

Against the walls of the houses the Agaric shaped like a horse's hoof (boletus igniarius) was hung up to serve as a pin-cushion.

This species is very close to boletus scaber and boletus edulis.

This case demonstrates the fact to us that the boletus is superior to our greatest remedial agents in the case of intermittents.

This is quite a pretty plant, but at first sight it will not be taken for a boletus.

The Sepedoniei are represented by at least one species wherever boletus is found.

Similar trials, and it is said successfully, have been made with boletus edulis.

Madam, said the slave, there is nothing of which the noble Claudius is fonder than boletus mushrooms.

She broke the top of the boletus in two parts—the audience pressing closer to see.

Ah, you are used to devour your Boleti alone, in the face of your invited guests; eat then, the boletus which Claudius ate!

Word Value for Boletus
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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