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By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Aphelxia.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [French] A kind of waking dream; loose musing; unconscious meditation; state in which the mind abandons itself without active control over the subjects or processes of thought, to the suggestions of fancy and associations of imagination, memory, &c.;— a romantic vision; vain dream; chimera;— absent or dreamy state of mind.
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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).