| basidiomycetes | <fungus> A class of true fungi more commonly known as club fungi, so called because they produce their spores at the tips of swollen hyphae that look a bit like clubs or baseball bats. This division includes mushrooms, puffballs, earth stars, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, rust, smuts, jelly fungi andbird's-nest fungi. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| basidiomycetes shitake mushrooms | A class of true fungi more commonly known as club fungi, so called because they produce their spores at the tips of swollen hyphae that look a bit like clubs or baseball bats. This division includes mushrooms, puffballs, earth stars, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, rust, smuts, jelly fungi and bird's-nest fungi. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Basidiomycota | A phylum of fungi characterised by a spore-bearing organ, the basidium, that is usually a clavate cell that bears basidiospores after karyogamy and meiosis. Some mycologists have raised the class Basidiomycetes to the phylum or division level. (05 Mar 2000) |
| basidiospore | Spores of Basidiomycete fungi. These spores are usually uninucleate and haploid. (18 Nov 1997) |
| basidium | Club shaped organ involved in sexual reproduction in basidiomycete fungi (mushrooms, toadstools etc.). Bears four haploid basidiospores at its tip. (18 Nov 1997) |
| basifacial | Relating to the lower portion of the face. (05 Mar 2000) |
| basifacial axis | A line drawn from the subnasal point to the midpoint of the sphenoethmoidal suture. Synonym: facial axis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| basifier | <chemistry> That which converts into a salifiable base. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| basifixed | Attached at or by the base, for example of anthers, by the base of the connective. (09 Oct 1997) |
| basifugal | <botany> Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth. Origin: Base,+ L. Fugere to flee. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| basify | <chemistry> To convert into a salifiable base. Origin: Base + -fy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| basigynium | <botany> The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Base + woman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| basihyal | <anatomy> Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch. Origin: Basi- + Gr. (the letter "upsilon"); from the shape. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| basihyoid | <anatomy> The central tongue bone. Origin: Basi- + hyoid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| basil | The skin of a sheep tanned with bark. Origin: Corrupt. From E. Basan, F. Basane, LL. Basanium, bazana, fr. Ar. Bithana, prop, lining. <botany> The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. Minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum). Basil thyme, a name given to the fragrant herbs Calamintha Acinos and C. Nepeta. Wild basil, a plant (Calamintha clinopodium) of the Mint family. Origin: F. Basilic, fr. L. Badilicus royal, Gr, fr. King. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |