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 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

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

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