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nouna manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
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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
- basidium a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes
- order phallales order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes
- lycoperdales small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies; includes puffballs and earthstars
- homobasidiomycetes category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes
- division eumycota true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi)
- basidiomycetous fungi any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota