'Peronate' definitions:
Definition of 'Peronate'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]