BETWEENITY
\bɪtwˈiːnɪti], \bɪtwˈiːnɪti], \b_ɪ_t_w_ˈiː_n_ɪ_t_i]\
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The state or quality of being between: intermediate condition: that which occupies an intermediate space, place, or position. "To rejoin heads tails and betweenities" - Southey. "The house is not Gothic, but of that betweenity that intervened when Gothic declined and Palladian was creeping in." - H Walpole.
By Daniel Lyons
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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).