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FAMILY PARMELIACEAE

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Meaning:

A family of lichens

Synonyms:

family Parmeliaceae; Parmeliaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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