WENDELL PHILLIPS
\wˈɛndɛl fˈɪlɪps], \wˈɛndɛl fˈɪlɪps], \w_ˈɛ_n_d_ɛ_l f_ˈɪ_l_ɪ_p_s]\
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An eminent American social and political reformer and orator; born at Boston, Nov. 29, 1811; died there, Feb. 2, 1884. He wrote: "The Constitution a Pro-Slavery Compact" (1840); "Can Abolitionists Vote or Take Office?\" (1845); "Review of Spooner's "Constitutionality of Slavery" (1847); "Review of Webster's Speech of March 7th" (1850); "Review of Kossuth's Course" (1851); "Defense of the Anti-Slavery Movement" (1853); "Addresses" (1859); "Speeches, Lectures, and Letters" (1863).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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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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