MICHAEL BANIM
\mˈa͡ɪkə͡l bˈanɪm], \mˈaɪkəl bˈanɪm], \m_ˈaɪ_k_əl b_ˈa_n_ɪ_m]\
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An Irish novelist: born in Kilkenny, Aug. 5, 1796; died in Booterstown, Aug. 30, 1874. He claimed to have written 13 out of the 24 books of fiction confusedly associated with the names of John and Michael Banim, and called himself the author of "Crohoore of the Bill Hook", one of the most popular of the "O' Hara Tales"; "The Ghost Hunter" (1833); "Father Connell" (1842); and "The Town of the Cascades" (2 vols., 1864).
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).