PIETER LANGENDIJK
\pˈa͡ɪ͡ətə lˈand͡ʒəndˌe͡ɪk], \pˈaɪətə lˈandʒəndˌeɪk], \p_ˈaɪə_t_ə l_ˈa_n_dʒ_ə_n_d_ˌeɪ_k]\
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A Dutch poet and playwright; born at Haarlem, July 25, 1683; died in 1756. Left to the care of an extravagant mother by the early death of his father, he was obliged to abandon his course of education, and support himself as a designer in a damask factory. His comedies, which are the redeeming features of a barren period of Dutch literature, include: "Don Quixote" (1711); "The Braggart"; "The Mutual Marriage Deception"; "Xantippe"; "Papirius"; "A Mirror of Our Merchants", the last three being comedies of manners.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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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).