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

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 Miron Elisha Hard

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

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

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 Miron Elisha Hard