PURSUIVANT
\pəsˈuːɪvənt], \pəsˈuːɪvənt], \p_ə_s_ˈuː_ɪ_v_ə_n_t]\
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A pursuer or follower: in Great Britain, a state messenger; an attendant on the heralds; one of four junior officers in the Heralds College.
By Daniel Lyons
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).