PREPONDERATE
\pɹɪpˈɒndəɹət], \pɹɪpˈɒndəɹət], \p_ɹ_ɪ_p_ˈɒ_n_d_ə_ɹ_ə_t]\
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To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
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To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
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To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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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).