"pith helmet" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pith helmets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pith helmet (plural pith helmets)
  1. A lightweight helmet-shaped hat made of the pith of the sola or shola (Indian spongewood) plant covered with white cotton and faced with green cloth. Categories (topical): Headwear Synonyms: topee, sola topi
    Sense id: en-pith_helmet-en-noun-fyFgZicV Disambiguation of Headwear: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 67 33 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 59 41
  2. A hat of similar appearance, but made of different materials. Categories (topical): Headwear
    Sense id: en-pith_helmet-en-noun-8xL6BMrX Disambiguation of Headwear: 55 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (type of hat): hellekypärä (Finnish), Tropenhelm [masculine] (German), tropikhjälm [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'type of hat': 46 54

Inflected forms

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