SHABBILY
\ʃˈabɪlɪ], \ʃˈabɪlɪ], \ʃ_ˈa_b_ɪ_l_ɪ]\
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so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated; "a shabbily dressed man"
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in a mean and ungenerous manner; "the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room"
By Princeton University
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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).