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

Derived 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

Vesiculose, full of small rounded vesicles, as the trama of the pileus of a Russula.

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

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

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

Figure 249.—Section of portion of gill of Marasmius cohærens. t, trama of gill; sh, sub-hymenium; h, hymenium layer.

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