Word Meanings - BASIDIOMYCETES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large subdivision of fungi coördinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc.

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• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• BORNE
  Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• PUBLICAN
  A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• PUBLICATION
  1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• FUNGIN
  A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
• BASIDIUM
  A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.
• FUNGIBLES
  Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. (more info) fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• PUBLICITY
  The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.