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Basidiomycete

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Any of various members of a large group of fungi bearing sexually produced spores on a basidium. The group includes puffballs, shelf fungi, rusts, smuts, and mushrooms.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A fungus which produces sexual spores on a basidium.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota

Word Usage

"The cap of a basidiomycete, an expanded structure at the top of the stipe that bears the hymenium (gills, etc.) on its undersurface."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

fungus

Hyponym

mushroom polypore gill fungus pore fungus pore mushroom agaric

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

basidiomycetous fungi