DITRACHYCERAS
\dˈɪtɹɐkˌa͡ɪsɹəz], \dˈɪtɹɐkˌaɪsɹəz], \d_ˈɪ_t_ɹ_ɐ_k_ˌaɪ_s_ɹ_ə_z]\
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(F.) Dicorne rude. This fancied entozoon was first observed in the evacuations of a female, by M. Sultzer, of Strasburg. It is of a fawn colour, from 3 to 5 lines in length, with an oval head, flattened and terminating in a point posteriorly; contained in a membranous sac, and furnished anteriorly, with a bifurcated, rugous horn. Laennec considers it a vesicular worm or hydatid. According to Von Siebold, there is no such entozoon. The undigested seed of the mulberry, which had been eaten, was mistaken for it.
By Robley Dunglison
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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).
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