RAILROAD NOMENCLATURE IN U.S.
\ɹˈe͡ɪlɹə͡ʊd nəmˈɛŋklət͡ʃəɹ ɪn jˌuːˈɛs], \ɹˈeɪlɹəʊd nəmˈɛŋklətʃəɹ ɪn jˌuːˈɛs], \ɹ_ˈeɪ_l_ɹ_əʊ_d n_ə_m_ˈɛ_ŋ_k_l_ə_tʃ_ə_ɹ ɪ_n j_ˌuː_ˈɛ_s]\
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Railway and R. station are, in U.S., railroad and R. depot; engine-driver and stoker are engineer and fireman; carriage and luggage-van are passenger-car and baggage-car; goods train is freight train; line, siding, crossing plate, points, are track, turn-out, frog, switches.- Bartlett's Americanisms.
By Henry Percy Smith
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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).