ARRIGO BOITO
\ɐɹˈɪɡə͡ʊ bˈɔ͡ɪtə͡ʊ], \ɐɹˈɪɡəʊ bˈɔɪtəʊ], \ɐ_ɹ_ˈɪ_ɡ_əʊ b_ˈɔɪ_t_əʊ]\
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An Italian poet and musician; born at Padua, 1842. His father was an Italian painter and his mother was a Polish lady, and the son inherits the gifts of both nations. His librettos written for Verdi, Bottesini, and Ponchielli, and his own operas, "Mefistofele" and "Nerone", are of a high order of poetry. In 1877 he published a separate volume of verse.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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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).