Definition of "pallium" in inglés

noun

(historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
(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.
(malacology) The mantle of a mollusc.
(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
(botany) A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
(obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.