TOM
\tˈɒm], \tˈɒm], \t_ˈɒ_m]\
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The knave of trumps at gleek.
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The male of certain animals; - often used adjectively or in composition; as, tom turkey, tomcat, etc.
By Oddity Software
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The knave of trumps at gleek.
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The male of certain animals; - often used adjectively or in composition; as, tom turkey, tomcat, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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tom, n. a dim. of Thomas--used generically for man in 'tomfool,' &c.: a male, esp. a male cat: (prov.) a close-stool.--ns. TOM'-AND-JER'RY, a drink of hot rum and eggs, spiced and sweetened; TOM'-TROT, a toffee made with treacle, sugar, and butter.--TOM, DICK, AND HARRY, any persons taken at random.--LONG TOM, a long gun, as distinguished from a carronade, a gun carried amidships on a swivel-carriage.
By Thomas Davidson
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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).