FAMILY PARMELIACEAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Parmeliaceae mean? 

• FAMILY PARMELIACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY PARMELIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. a family of lichens

  Familiarity information: FAMILY PARMELIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PARMELIACEAE (noun)

Meaning:

A family of lichens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Parmeliaceae; Parmeliaceae

Hypernyms ("family Parmeliaceae" is a kind of...):

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "family Parmeliaceae"):

genus Parmelia; Parmelia (type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens)

Cetraria; genus Cetraria (foliose lichens chiefly of northern latitudes)

Holonyms ("family Parmeliaceae" is a member of...):

division Lichenes; Lichenes (comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi)