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Cortinarius corrugatus

Cortinarius corrugatus

9.9
A mushroom with a sticky wrinkled brown cap and violet gills that turn brown
  • proper noun
  • Specialized
: Cortinarius corrugatus
  • The Cortinarius corrugatus is often recognized by its wrinkled, sticky cap and violet gills.

Examples

  • Identifying Cortinarius corrugatus requires examining the color changes in its gills as it matures.

  • The Cortinarius corrugatus is often found in damp woodlands.

  • Mycologists discovered a patch of Cortinarius corrugatus deep in the forest after the rains.

  • Have you ever seen a Cortinarius corrugatus in the wild?

  • Mycologists discovered a patch of Cortinarius corrugatus deep in the forest after the rains.

  • Identifying Cortinarius corrugatus requires examining the color changes in its gills as it matures.

  • The Cortinarius corrugatus is often recognized by its wrinkled, sticky cap and violet gills.

Synonyms

Cortinarius
vsCortinarius corrugatus
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A group of mushrooms with rusty red spores and a thin web-like veil found in woods

is a specific species with a viscid wrinkled tawny cap and changing gills

Surface Forms

Cortinarius corrugatus main

Morphology

Cortinarius + corrugatus

This is a Latin binomial (a species name) rather than a compositional English phrase: the second element 'corrugatus' is a Latin epithet (not attested in the provided dictionary) and even knowing the genus label 'Cortinarius' does not let a B1 learner reconstruct the detailed descriptive meaning. Taxonomic names function as proper nouns across languages and are therefore opaque to learners who have not seen them before.

Etymology

Cortinarius corrugatus comes from Latin words that make a simple picture: cortina means a thin 'curtain' and points to the web-like covering over the young gills, and corrugatus means 'wrinkled' and points to the mushroom's wrinkled, sticky cap. So the name helps you remember this fungus as the one with a curtain-like web over its gills and a wrinkled cap whose gills change color as it ages.