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CORTINA
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Irregular inflected form: cortinae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils
Classified under:
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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