BARNABE BARNES
\bˈɑːne͡ɪb bˈɑːnz], \bˈɑːneɪb bˈɑːnz], \b_ˈɑː_n_eɪ_b b_ˈɑː_n_z]\
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An English poet; born in Yorkshire about 1569; died in St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham, in December 1609. He was the son of the Bishop of Durham; was educated at Oxford; and went to Normandy in 1591 with the Earl of Essex. His fame rests on a collection of sonnets, madrigals, and odes, called "Parthenophil and Parthenope" (London, about 1593). Other books: "A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets" (1595); and "The Devil's Charter", a tragedy (1607).
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).