volva

American  

[vol-vuh] / ˈvɒl və /

noun

Mycology.

1. the membranous envelope that encloses the base of various mushrooms formed when the velum ruptures.

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volva British  

/ ˈvɒlvə /

noun

1. botany a cup-shaped structure that sheathes the base of the stalk of certain mushrooms

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volva Scientific  

/ vŏl′və,vôl′- /

1. A cuplike structure around the base of the stalk of certain basidiomycete fungi.

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Other Word Forms

• volvate
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of volva

1745–55; < Latin: covering, akin to volvere to roll, wrap

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

volva

Fungi with red caps or stems; mushrooms with white gills, skirts or rings on their stems; and any ’shrooms with a bulbous sack or volva are all worth avoiding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

P. exp. pale dingy yellow with tinge of red, with scattered white scales; g. free, white, broadest in front; s. white, squamulose below the ring, base bulbous, volva ample margin free.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. thin, campan. then exp. naked, pectinately sulcate, maroon or brownish; g. annulato-adnexed; s. ventricose, volva large, lax. lenticularis, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Yet did not the volva tell me by the fount when the scin-laeca rose from the grave that jewel of Saxon I must have to complete my knowledge?

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison

P. 3-5 cm. coarsely striate, whitish, glabrous, then pale tawny and sprinkled with rose-coloured powder; g. free; s. 8-12 cm. white; volva with recurved edge; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

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