ECLECTICS
\ɪklˈɛktɪks], \ɪklˈɛktɪks], \ɪ_k_l_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_k_s]\
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By William R. Warner
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[Gr., picking out.] Properly, any who borrow from other systems of thought to complete their own. In this sense Plato and Aristotle, and perhaps all thinkers, are eclectics. But the name was specially applied in the second century to the New Platonists of Alexandria.
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See Neoplatonism.
By Henry Percy Smith
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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).