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CLADONIACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A family of lichens

Synonyms:

Cladoniaceae; family Cladoniaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Cladoniaceae"):

Cladonia; genus Cladonia (type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia)

Holonyms ("Cladoniaceae" 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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