APLUSTRE
\ɐplˈʌstə], \ɐplˈʌstə], \ɐ_p_l_ˈʌ_s_t_ə]\
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An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.
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An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.
By Noah Webster.
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ap-lus't[.e]r, n. the ornament rising above the stern of ancient ships, often a sheaf of volutes. [L.--Gr. aphlaston.]
By Thomas Davidson
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).