SIFTER
\sˈɪftə], \sˈɪftə], \s_ˈɪ_f_t_ə]\
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One who, or that which, sifts.
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Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; - so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell of the beak.
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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).