THESAURUS
\θɛsˈɔːɹəs], \θɛsˈɔːɹəs], \θ_ɛ_s_ˈɔː_ɹ_ə_s]\
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A storehouse or place where treasure is kept; a lexicon or dictionary; as, a thesaurus of the English language.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A treasury or repository, esp. of knowledge: a lexicon or cyclopaedia.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Gr. Anliq. A storehouse.
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Hence, a repository of words or knowledge; a lexicon or cyclopedia.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin ]A treasury or storehouse ;-often applied to a comprehensive volume like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
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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).