WELD, WOLD
\wˈɛld], \wˈɛld], \w_ˈɛ_l_d]\
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A plant native to Great Britain and several European countries, used by dyers to give a yellow color, and sometimes called DYERSWEED. It is much cultivated in Kent for the London dyers. It is the Reseda Luteola of botanists, being a member of the same genus as mignonette. Sometimes also called WILD WOAD.
By Daniel Lyons
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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).