Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of ascomycetous fungi, having the perithecium labiate, the border entire, and the asci elongated. They grow on decayed wood, branches, leaves, etc.
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Examples
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People just fall and die even as the stray bullets of this new hysterium hit them all too predictably.
Kafila 2009
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Within these uneven equations, the blog-sphere has given the blogger an opportunity to revel in her / his endless choreography of the self getting increasingly steeped in the mild hysterium of our barren epochs of 9\% growth rate.
Kafila 2009
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