STERCORACEOUS
\stˌɜːkɔːɹˈe͡ɪʃəs], \stˌɜːkɔːɹˈeɪʃəs], \s_t_ˌɜː_k_ɔː_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_s]\
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The French use the term Fistules stercoraires for those which are kept up by the constant passage of fecal or stercora'ceous matter. The name Stercoraires is sometimes given, in derision, to those physicians who are fond of purging their patients: a posteriori has been similarly used.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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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).