GRENADE
\ɡɹənˈe͡ɪd], \ɡɹənˈeɪd], \ɡ_ɹ_ə_n_ˈeɪ_d]\
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An explosive shell fired by a fuse and usually thrown by hand; a flask or bottle containing chemicals to be thrown and burst, for putting out fires.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A small shell of iron or glass, filled with powder and bits of iron, and thrown from the hand, so called from its resembling a pomegranate.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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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).