the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun-plural. One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
A subclass or an order of fungi, of the group Basidiomycetes, characterized by having a hymenium on the free, exposed surface of the sporophore, the compound structure which bears it.
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n. used in some classifications; usually coextensive with order Agaricales: mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi