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Hymenomycetes

Hymenomycetes \Hy`me*no*my*ce"tes\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a membrane + ?, ?, a mushroom.] (Bot.) One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed.
--M. J. Berkley.

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hymenomycetes

n. (plural of hymenomycete English)

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The third class, Hymenomycetes, or Membrane fungi, has been described, but there remain two other groups of which we will now speak more fully.

In the family called Hymenomycetes there are mixed with these, and closely packed together, one-celled sterile structures named cystidia.