REINDEER LICHEN
Dictionary entry overview: What does reindeer lichen mean? • REINDEER LICHEN (noun)
The noun REINDEER LICHEN has 1 sense:
1. an erect greyish branching lichen of Arctic and even some north temperate regions constituting the chief food for reindeer and caribou and sometimes being eaten by humans
Familiarity information: REINDEER LICHEN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REINDEER LICHEN (noun)
Meaning:
An erect greyish branching lichen of Arctic and even some north temperate regions constituting the chief food for reindeer and caribou and sometimes being eaten by humans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
arctic moss; Cladonia rangiferina; reindeer lichen; reindeer moss
Hypernyms ("reindeer lichen" is a kind of...):
lichen (any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.)
Holonyms ("reindeer lichen" is a member of...):
Cladonia; genus Cladonia (type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia)
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