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Mushroom headed

Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter having a head like that of a mushroom...


Mushrooms

Mushrooms, to pick these growing in their natural state in a field is not 'wilfully or maliciously to commit damage to real or personal property' within s. 52 of the (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861; Gardner v. Mansbridge, (1887) 19 QBD 217....


Basidiomycota

A large subdivision of the kingdom Fungi coextensive with the phylum Basidiomycetes characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium It embraces those fungi best known to the public such as mushrooms toadstools etc Among the classes of the Basidiomycota are Gasteromycetes puffballs Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales smuts and Uredinales rusts and Hymenomycetes mushrooms toadstools agarics bracket fungi...


Catchup

A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes flavored with onions sugar salt and spices called also tomato ketchup The term is also applied to pureed sauces containing mushrooms walnuts etc being called in such cases mushroom ketchup walnut ketchup etc...


Fungi

A group of thallophytic plant like organisms of low organization destitute of chlorophyll in which reproduction is mainly accomplished by means of asexual spores which are produced in a great variety of ways though sexual reproduction is known to occur in certain Phycomycetes or so called algal fungi They include the molds mildews rusts smuts mushrooms toadstools puff balls and the allies of each In the two kingdom classification system they were classed with the plants but in the modern five kingdom classification they are not classed as plants but are classed in their own separate kingdom fungi which includes the phyla Zygomycota including simple fungi such as bread molds Ascomycota including the yeasts Basidiomycota including the mushrooms smuts and rusts and Deuteromycota the fungi imperfecti Some of the forms such as the yeasts appear as single celled microorganisms but all of the fungi are are eukaryotic thus distinguishing them from the prokaryotic microorganisms of the kingdon ...


ketchup

A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes flavored with onions sugar salt and spices called also tomato ketchup The term is also applied to pureed sauces containing mushrooms walnuts etc being called in such cases mushroom ketchup walnut ketchup etc...


VerbarMycelium

The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed the so called mushroom spawn...


Basidium

A special oblong or pyriform cell with slender branches which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes of which the common mushroom is an example...


Champignon

An edible species of mushroom Agaricus campestris...


Chanterelle

A name for several species of mushroom of which one Cantharellus cibrius is edible the others reputed poisonous...


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