cortina

American  

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

noun

Mycology.

plural

cortinae

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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Etymology

Origin of cortina

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

Example Sentences

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 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 Atkinson, George Francis

Classical Latin had also a word cortina, meaning a caldron or round kettle.

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

In Figure 240 the cortina and the bulbous form of the stem will be seen.

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

Inocybe is from two Greek words meaning fiber and head; so called from the fibrillose veil, concrete with the cuticle of the pileus, often free at the margin, in the form of a cortina.

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