THEBAID
\θˈɛbe͡ɪd], \θˈɛbeɪd], \θ_ˈɛ_b_eɪ_d]\
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By Noah Webster.
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Territory around Thebes (in Egypt); (also L -is) poem on (siege of) Thebes (in Greece), esp. that of Statius. [Latin]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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The heroic poem of Statius, written in the first century of our era, and relating the mythical civil war of Thebes between the sons of Oedipus. The word is also used to denote the region of the Egyptian Thebes, known as the city of the hundred gates.
By Henry Percy Smith
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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).