SEBASTIAN FRANCK
\səbˈast͡ʃən fɹˈank], \səbˈastʃən fɹˈank], \s_ə_b_ˈa_s_tʃ_ə_n f_ɹ_ˈa_n_k]\
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A German prose Pietist and spiritual and ethical writer; born in Donauworth, 1499; died in Basle, Switzerland, 1543. He was a priest who enlisted warmly in the cause of the Reformation, and wrote two compilations, "Proverbs" (1541) and a "World-Book" (1534), abounding in instructive and edifying miscellany; in addition to which he produced historical and descriptive tracts and monographs.
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).