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GENUS LECANORA

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Meaning:

Type genus of Lecanoraceae; crustaceous lichens

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Lecanora" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Lecanora"):

lecanora (any lichen of the genus Lecanora; some used in dyeing; some used for food)

archil; orchil (any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil)

Holonyms ("genus Lecanora" is a member of...):

family Lecanoraceae; Lecanoraceae (a fungus family of the division Lichenes)

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