CORTINA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: cortinae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cortina" is a kind of...):

partial veil (membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth; represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap)

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