As nouns the difference between paraphrase and basidium
is that paraphrase is a restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning while basidium is a small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.
As a verb paraphrase
is to restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.
paraphrase
Noun
(
en noun)
A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning.
Derived terms
* paraphrastic
* paraphrastical
* paraphrastically
See also
* Etymology of translation
* metaphrase
Verb
(paraphras)
To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.
basidium
English
Noun
(basidia)
(mycology) A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.