-dēˌī noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from eu- + -basidii (from basidium)
in some classifications : a subclass of fungi including all those basidiomycetes in which the basidium arises directly from vegetative cells of the diploid mycelium (as the puffballs, jelly fungi, pore fungi, and related forms) — compare hemibasidii , heterobasidiomycetes