SYBRAND FEITAMA
\sˈɪbɹand fe͡ɪtˈɑːmə], \sˈɪbɹand feɪtˈɑːmə], \s_ˈɪ_b_ɹ_a_n_d f_eɪ_t_ˈɑː_m_ə]\
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A Dutch minor poet and critic; born in Amsterdam, Dec. 10, 1694; died there, June 13, 1758. Quite destitute of originality, but of faultless taste, he made his literary verdicts respected; and translated Voltaire's "Henriade", Fenelon's "Telemachus", and other French plays into correct if somewhat insipid Dutch verse of marked Gallic flavor.
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).
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