Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium;
includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi);
in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi;
[syn: Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycotina]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
subdivision Basidiomycota
n 1: comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes
Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the
orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and
Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket
fungi); in some classification systems considered a
division of kingdom Fungi [syn: Basidiomycota,
subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina,
subdivision Basidiomycotina]