bolet, n. rare.
Brit. /ˈbɒlɪt/, U.S. /ˈbɑlət/
[‹ French bolet mushroom, boletus (14th cent. in Middle French) or its etymon classical Latin bōlētus boletus n. Compare Italian boleto (a 1498).]
A boletus; a fungus of the genus Boletus. Cf. bolete n.
| 1526 Grete Herball Gloss. sig. Dd.1/2, Bolet is a maner of dede wode and groweth agaynst the trees & is very lyght. 1887 W. D. Hay Elem Text-bk. Brit. Fungi vii. 53 Bolets are large, substantial, common, and abundant... We have about a score of species of Bolet which are wholesome and nutritive. 1933 J. P. Bishop Now with his Love iii. 43 Close to the old wall, on swollen And gouty feet, bolets—brown mushrooms Of autumn, scattered on damps. 1977 P. O'Brian Mauritius Command (1996) i. 16 On his saddle-bow lay a net, filled with a variety of mushrooms—bolets of all kinds, blewits, chanterelles, Jew's ears. |