CHRISOME
\kɹˈa͡ɪsʌm], \kɹˈaɪsʌm], \k_ɹ_ˈaɪ_s_ʌ_m]\
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A white vesture, in token of innocence, placed at baptism on the child, to keep the oil [Gr.] from running off. Chrisome-child, one shrouded in its C., because dying between its baptism and the churching of the mother; sometimes incorrectly used to mean one dying before baptism.
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).