DEAD-WOOD
\dˈɛdwˈʊd], \dˈɛdwˈʊd], \d_ˈɛ_d_w_ˈʊ_d]\
Sort: Oldest first
-
(Naut.) Blocks of timber fayed on to the upper side of the keel, and at the extreme ends, to a considerable height one upon another. Dead-wood knees, the top pieces of dead-wood fore and aft, shaped so as to fasten the keel to the stem and stern.
By Henry Percy Smith
Word of the day
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).