WILLIAM ADAMS
\wˈɪli͡əm ˈadəmz], \wˈɪliəm ˈadəmz], \w_ˈɪ_l_iə_m ˈa_d_ə_m_z]\
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A prominent American clergyman and religious writer; born at Colchester, Conn., Jan. 25, 1807; died at Orange Mountain, N. J., Aug. 31, 1880. He was long pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York, and was president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York city from 1873 to 1880. Among his publications are: "In the World, not of the World" (1866); "The Three Gardens" (1867); "Conversations of Jesus Christ with Representative Men" (1868).
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).