GENUS ROCCELLA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Chiefly fruticose maritime rock-inhabiting lichens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Roccella"):

roccella; Roccella tinctoria (a source of the dye archil and of litmus)

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

family Roccellaceae; Roccellaceae (a fungus family of division Lichenes)

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