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| Definition: | [n] used in some classifications; usually coextensive with order Agaricales: mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi | ||
| Synonyms: | class Hymenomycetes | ||
| See Also: | Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, class, subdivision Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycotina | ||
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary | |||
| Definition: | \Hy`me*no*my*ce"tes\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a membrane + ?, ?, a mushroom.] (Bot.) One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed. --M. J. Berkley. | ||
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