Definition of "pallium" in Englisch

noun

1. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.

2. (Christianity) A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion.

3. (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc.

4. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

5. (botany) A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.

6. (obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.