WALLOON
\wɒlˈuːn], \wɒlˈuːn], \w_ɒ_l_ˈuː_n]\
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a member of the French-speaking people living in Belgium
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dialect of French spoken in Belgium and adjacent parts of France
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a member of the French-speaking people living in Belgium
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dialect of French spoken in Belgium and adjacent parts of France
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One of the descendants of the old Gallic Belgae who occupy the Belgian provinces or Hainault, Liege, and Namur, Southern Brabant, Western Luxembourg, and a few villages in Rhenish Prussia: the language of the same territory. It is a dialect or patois of French, with a great proportion of Gallic words preserved in it.
By Daniel Lyons
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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).