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ALECTORIA

• ALECTORIA (noun)
The noun ALECTORIA has 1 sense:

1. lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus

Familiarity information: ALECTORIA used as a noun is very rare.

• ALECTORIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alectoria; genus Alectoria

Hypernyms ("Alectoria" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Alectoria"):

horsehair lichen; horsetail lichen (any of several lichens of the genus Alectoria having a thallus consisting of filaments resembling hair)

Holonyms ("Alectoria" is a member of...):

family Usneaceae; Usneaceae (fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria)

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(English proverb)
"Not every sweet root give birth to sweet grass."
(Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"Eat less food to find more sleep."
(Arabic proverb)
"God's mills mill slowly, but surely."
(Czech proverb)

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