Corticium

Translingual

Etymology

Substantivization of Latin corticius (“made of bark or cork”), from cortex (“plant bark, cork”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Proper noun

Corticium n

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Plakinidae – certain sea sponges.
  2. A taxonomic genus within the family Corticiaceae – certain fungi.

Derived terms

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.