trama

American  

[trey-muh] / ˈtreɪ mə /

noun

Mycology.

1. a specialized hyphal tissue constituting the internal structure of mushroom gills, pore tubes, or spines.

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Other Word Forms

• tramal adjective

Etymology

Origin of trama

First recorded in 1855–60, trama is from the Latin word trāma warp (in weaving)

Example Sentences

La trama gira en torno a una familia en la que todos quieren vivir como sea sin importar a quien podrían perjudicar.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2019

The center of the gill is called the trama.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

The plants of the genus Trametes allied to Fomes are epiphytal, with the trama the same in substance and color as the hymenophore.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

In case of the genus Trametes the hymenophorum descends into the trama of the pores without any change, and is permanently concrete with the pileus.

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

The first is of silk, in skeins, thread, and trama.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander