CONSTERNATION
\kɒnstənˈe͡ɪʃən], \kɒnstənˈeɪʃən], \k_ɒ_n_s_t_ə_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
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By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] Amazement or terror which confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for thought or action; amazement; perturbation.
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Astonishment, amazement, terrour, dread.
By Thomas Sheridan
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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).