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

Etymology

Origin of cortina

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

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 veil, quite beautiful and strongly persistent, forms a cortina of the same color as the cap but becoming discolored by the falling of the spores.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Cortinarius is from cortina, a curtain, alluding to a cobwebby veil seen only in the comparatively young plants.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

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 Dallas, Ellen M.

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 Massee, George