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CORTINA (cortinae)
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Irregular inflected form: cortinae
Dictionary entry overview: What does cortina mean?
• CORTINA (noun)
The noun CORTINA has 1 sense:
1. a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils
Familiarity information: CORTINA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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