FETICHISTIC
\fˌɛtɪkˈɪstɪk], \fˌɛtɪkˈɪstɪk], \f_ˌɛ_t_ɪ_k_ˈɪ_s_t_ɪ_k]\
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Of or pertaining to, or characterized by fetichism; abjectly superstitious. "Our resuscitated spirit was not a pagan philosopher nor a philosophizing pagan poet, but a man of the 15th century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of Epicurean levity and Fetichistic dread."-George Eliot.
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).