MERMAID
\mˈɜːme͡ɪd], \mˈɜːmeɪd], \m_ˈɜː_m_eɪ_d]\
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A creature, said in fable and fairy tale to live in the sea, having the body of a woman and the tail of a fish.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Maid of the sea, a fabled marine animal, having the upper part like a woman and the lower like a fish:-masc. MERMAN.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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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).