BROMELIA PINGUIN
\bɹə͡ʊmˈiːli͡ə pˈɪŋɡwɪn], \bɹəʊmˈiːliə pˈɪŋɡwɪn], \b_ɹ_əʊ_m_ˈiː_l_iə p_ˈɪ_ŋ_ɡ_w_ɪ_n]\
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The West India plant, which affords the Pinguin fruit. The fruit is refrigerant, and the juice, when ripe, very austere. It is used to acidulate punch. A wine is made from the Pinguin, which is very intoxicating, and has a good flavour.
By Robley Dunglison
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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).
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