Source : WordNet®

Basidiomycota
     n : comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes
         Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising
         the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)
         and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and
         bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered
         a division of kingdom Fungi [syn: {subdivision
         Basidiomycota}, {Basidiomycotina}, {subdivision
         Basidiomycotina}]