cortina

[ kawr-tahy-nuh, -tee-nuh ]

noun,plural cor·ti·nae

[kawr-tahy-nee, -tee-nahy]. /kɔrˈtaɪ ni, -ˈti naɪ/. Mycology.

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.

Origin of cortina

1825–35; <New Latin; Late Latin cortīnacurtain

There is in consequence little agriculture and no cultivation of the vine in the immediate neighbourhood of cortina.
Tyrol and its People | Clive Holland
From Tre Croci the beautiful road runs direct to cortina down a rather steep incline.
Tyrol and its People | Clive Holland
cortina lies in its valley like a white shell that has rolled down into a broad vase of malachite.
Little Rivers | Henry van Dyke
The art schools of cortina are famous for their beautiful work in gold and silver filigree, and wood-inlaying.
Little Rivers | Henry van Dyke
When a stern necessity forces one to leave cortina, there are several ways of departure.
Little Rivers | Henry van Dyke

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