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    FAMILY USNEACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    family Usneaceae; Usneaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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