SPARSE
\spˈɑːs], \spˈɑːs], \s_p_ˈɑː_s]\
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Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.
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Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.
By Oddity Software
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Thinly scattered; not dense or thick; few and thinly distributed; as, a sparse population; not abundant.
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Sparseness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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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).