VICTORIN FABRE
\vˈɪktɔːɹˌɪn fˈabə], \vˈɪktɔːɹˌɪn fˈabə], \v_ˈɪ_k_t_ɔː_ɹ_ˌɪ_n f_ˈa_b_ə]\
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A French rhetorician and versifier; born in Jaujac, Languedoc, July 19, 1785; died in Paris, May 19, 1831. Euphony and elegance are the characteristics of "Little Works in Prose and Verse" (1806); "The Death of Henry IV". (1808), a poem; and the eulogies on Boileau, Montaigne, and La Bruyere, which constitute his most important work.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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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).