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Basic Process
- - A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
Basidiolichen
- noun - a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete
Basidiomycete
- noun - any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
Basidiomycota
- noun - 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
Basidiospores
- noun - a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium
Basioccipital
- - Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young. -- n. The basioccipital bone.
Basipterygium
- - A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium.
Basipterygoid
- - Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.
Basket Flower
- noun - annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets
- annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple-rayed flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets
Basket Willow
- noun - Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin