FIDDLE-HEADED, FIDDLE-PATTERNED
\fˈɪdə͡lhˈɛdɪd], \fˈɪdəlhˈɛdɪd], \f_ˈɪ_d_əl_h_ˈɛ_d_ɪ_d]\
Definitions of FIDDLE-HEADED, FIDDLE-PATTERNED
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Terms applied to forks, spoons, and the like, whose handles are fashioned after a pattern which has some resemblance to a fiddle. "A kind of fork that is fiddle-headed."-Hood. "My table-spoons the little fiddle-patterned ones."-R. H. Barham.
By Daniel Lyons
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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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