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nounan expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it uptype of:
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nouna manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
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nounthe usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of peopletype of:
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"an imaginative orchestral idiom"nounthe style of a particular artist or school or movement
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- less (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer
- mushroom any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
- doghouse an idiomatic term for being in disfavor
- idiomatic of or relating to or conforming to idiom
- basidiomycetes large class of higher fungi coextensive with subdivision Basidiomycota
- dacrymycetaceae a family of basidiomycetous fungi belonging to the order Tremellales having a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa
- tremellaceae a family of basidiomycetous fungi of the order Tremellales that have the basidium divided longitudinally
- phallales order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes
- idiomatically in an idiomatic manner
- nidulariales small order of basidiomycetous fungi comprising families Nidulariaceae and Sphaerobolaceae