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Webster 1913 Edition


Hymenomycetes

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Hyˊme-no-my-ce′tes

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Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a membrane + [GREEK], [GREEK], a mushroom.]
(Bot.)
One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed.
M. J. Berkley.