CACHET
\kˈaʃe͡ɪ], \kˈaʃeɪ], \k_ˈa_ʃ_eɪ]\
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A stamp or medicine stamp, used by the ancient Romans for marking their drugs, especially those prescribed in diseases of the eyes; and hence called, by some, oculist stamps. Some of those more lately discovered amongst Roman antiquities, have been described by MM. Sichel and Duchalais, and by Prof. Simpson, of Edinburgh.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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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).