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Hymenomycetes

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Hy`me`no`my`ce´tes
n. pl.1.(Bot.) One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed.
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Noun1.Hymenomycetes - used in some classifications; usually coextensive with order Agaricales: mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycotina - comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi


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