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/dow/ [German Fidonet] D"ummster Anzunehmender User. A Germanacronym for stupidest imaginable user. From theengineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall(worst foreseeable accident), especially of a LNG tank farmplant or something with similarly disastrous consequences. Inpopular German, GAU is used only to refer to worst-casenuclear accidents such as a core meltdown.See cretin, loser and weasel.
By Denis Howe
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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).