GRAPPLE-PLANT
\ɡɹˈapə͡lplˈant], \ɡɹˈapəlplˈant], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈa_p_əl_p_l_ˈa_n_t]\
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The Cape Colony name of the Harpagophytum procumbens, a South African procumbent plant of the natural order Pedaliaceae. The seed has many hooked thorns, and clings to the mouth of any ox which has come on it while grazing, the pain being so exquisite that the animal roars through agony and a sense of helplessness.
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).
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