WILHELM VON KOTZEBUE
\wˈɪlhɛlm vˈɒn kˈɒtsɪbjˌuː], \wˈɪlhɛlm vˈɒn kˈɒtsɪbjˌuː], \w_ˈɪ_l_h_ɛ_l_m v_ˈɒ_n k_ˈɒ_t_s_ɪ_b_j_ˌuː]\
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A German miscellaneous writer, brother of August; born at Neval, March 19, 1813; died there, Nov. 5, 1887. Of his works, may be named: "A Hard-Hearted Friend", which scored a success, and "Two Sinners",- both dramas under the pseudonym "W. Augustsohn"; "Moldavian Pictures and Sketches" (1860), "Small Stories from the Great World" (1862), "Lascar Viorescu" (1863), "Artificial and Natural Life" (1869), all anonymous; "August von Kotzebue" (1884), the romance "Baron Fritz Reckensteg" (2 vols., 1885), "Roumanian Folk Songs" (1859), all under his own name.
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).