BOSA
\bˈə͡ʊsə], \bˈəʊsə], \b_ˈəʊ_s_ə]\
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By Noah Webster.
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An Aegyptian name for a mass, made of the meal of darnel, hemp-seed, and water. It is inebriating.-Prospero Alpini. At the present day, it is applied to a kind of acidulated and, sometimes, fermented scherbet. In its commonest form, it is made by fermenting an infusion of millet-seed. A more agreeable Bosa is prepared by the Egyptians from tamarinds and honey; and by the Greeks from the fruit of Solanum Lycopersicum. This last is called, by them, Drosis'ticon.
By Robley Dunglison
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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).