LIGNUM
\lˈɪɡnəm], \lˈɪɡnəm], \l_ˈɪ_ɡ_n_ə_m]\
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lig'num, n. wood as contrasted with soft tissues or with bark.--adjs. LIG'NEOUS, wooden: woody: made of wood; LIGNIF'EROUS. producing wood.--n. LIGNIFIC[=A]'TION.--adj. LIG'NIFORM, resembling wood.--v.t. LIG'NIFY, to turn into wood.--v.i. to become wood or woody:--pr.p. lig'nifying; pa.p. lig'nif[=i]ed.--n. LIG'N[=I]NE, pure woody fibre.--adj. LIGNIPER'DOUS, destructive of wood.--n. LIG'N[=I]TE, brown coal, coal retaining the texture of wood.--adj. LIGNIT'IC.--ns. LIG'NUM-CRU'CIS, wood of the cross: a relic asserted to be a piece of the true cross; LIG'NUM-V[=I]'TÆ, popular name of a South American tree with very hard wood. [L. lignum, wood.]
By Thomas Davidson
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[Latin] Wood. L. benedictum, L. guajaci, G. P., L. sanctum, guaiac wood. L. quassiae, see Quasia. L. sassafras, G. P., the wood of the root of Sassafras officinalis. Species lignorum, G. P., a mixture of guaiac, ononis, licorice-root, and sassafras-root.
By Alexander Duane
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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).