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USNEACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Usneaceae mean?

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

1. fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria

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

Dictionary entry details

• USNEACEAE (noun)

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Meaning:

Fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Usneaceae; Usneaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Usneaceae"):

genus Usnea; Usnea (widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus)

Evernia; genus Evernia (lichens of the family Usneaceae having a pendulous or shrubby thallus)

genus Ramalina; Ramalina (shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus)

Alectoria; genus Alectoria (lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus)

Holonyms ("Usneaceae" 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)

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USNEACEAE: related words searches

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» Definition of genus Evernia
» Definition of genus Ramalina
» Definition of Ramalina
» Definition of division Lichenes

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