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FAMILY USNEACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria
Synonyms:
family Usneaceae; Usneaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Usneaceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "family 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 ("family 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)
