cortina

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It is, both outside and inside, of a whitish violet color, often fibrillose above, with the cortina, and sometimes with the white veil, in the form of a zone at the middle.

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  1. In hymenomycetous fungi, a marginal veil ruptured at its connection with the stipe, and hanging from the pileus as a shreddy membrane. Also called curtain.

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  • Beninteso, poi i sedicenti "comunisti" d'oltre cortina hanno fatto anche di peggio. —  The Pirate Bay - Blog
  • Maybe we should quite trying to make overseas cars 'american' (pontiac G6, GTO, the astra, pontiac grand prix, ford escort / cortina, mercury capri (various generations)) and just sell them for what they are under their original names and designs. —  Wired Top Stories
  • It is, both outside and inside, of a whitish violet color, often fibrillose above, with the cortina, and sometimes with the white veil, in the form of a zone at the middle. —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • 'Phoebe, mone, si Cymaeae mihi conscia vatis stat casta cortina domo, si laurea digna fronte viret.' —  The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
  • Phoebe mone, si Cymaeae mihi conscia vatis stat casta cortina domo. —  Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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  1. New Latin use of Late Latin cortina, a curtain: see curtain.
 

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