wax cap

noun

1. any fungus of the basidiomycetous family Hygrophoraceae, having thick waxy gills. Many are brightly coloured, like the parrot toadstool ( Hygrophorus psittacinus ), which is yellow with a covering of green slime, and the orange-red H. conicus

Example Sentences

I learned how to run a steam- heated knife along the super, slicing the wax cap off the combs, how to load them just so into the spinner.

From Literature

But to Nuova, biting her way out through the thin wax cap of her cell, having never heard nor seen anything at all through all of her baby life, things seemed very bright and noisy indeed.

From Project Gutenberg