Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cortina

1 sense of cortina

Sense 1
cortina -- (a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils)
       => 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)