PROVINCIALISM
\pɹəvˈɪnʃə͡lˌɪzəm], \pɹəvˈɪnʃəlˌɪzəm], \p_ɹ_ə_v_ˈɪ_n_ʃ_əl_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
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A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
By Oddity Software
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A word, expression, mannerism, or way of thinking, peculiar to an outlying district; devotion to the ideas and customs of one region; hence, narrowness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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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).