GOS-HAWK
\ɡˈɒshˈɔːk], \ɡˈɒshˈɔːk], \ɡ_ˈɒ_s_h_ˈɔː_k]\
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[O.E.] (Ornith.) A short-winged British hawk, used mainly for ground game. Male, eighteen inches long, female, twenty-four inches. Plumage, grey-brown above, white dashed with black below ; young birds, gentil falcons, are more of a red colour. Astur palumbarius [L., hawk used for doves (palumbes)], sub-fam. Accipitrinae, fam. Falconidae, ord. Accipitres.
By Henry Percy Smith
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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).