HYPERBOLE
\ha͡ɪpˈɜːbəlˌi], \haɪpˈɜːbəlˌi], \h_aɪ_p_ˈɜː_b_ə_l_ˌi]\
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A rhetorical figure which produces a vivid impression by representing things as much greater or less than they really are: an exaggeration.
By Daniel Lyons
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Hyperbolie, hyperbolical.
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Rhetorical exaggeration.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).