cortina

American  

[kawr-tahy-nuh, -tee-nuh] / kɔrˈtaɪ nə, -ˈti nə /

noun

Mycology.

• cortinae
  plural

1. a weblike, often evanescent veil covering the gills or hanging from the cap edge of certain mushrooms, particularly those of genus Cortinarius, and sometimes persisting as a ring or remnant of fibrils around the mushroom stalk.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cortinae
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of cortina

1825–35; < New Latin; Late Latin cortīna curtain

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Example Sentences

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cortina

To signal the end of the set, a cortina, a 30-second piece of non-tango music, is played.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2017

The word comes into English through the O. Fr. cortine or courtine from the Late Lat. cortina.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

The veil is white, silky, hairy, separating from the stem like a dense cortina, the threads stretched both above and below as shown in Fig.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson

It is, both outside and inside, of a whitish violet color, often fibrillose above, with the cortina, and sometimes with the white veil, in the form of a zone at the middle.

From Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners by Ellen M. Dallas

P. 5-8 cm. obtuse, lilac, silky, then whitish or yellowish, flesh blue; g. clear blue then purplish; s. 7-12 cm. bulbous, juiceless, bluish from the cortina, inside the base white; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

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