ORDER LECHANORALES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Category used in some classification systems for all lichens that produce apothecia

Synonyms:

Lechanorales; order Lechanorales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("order Lechanorales" is a kind of...):

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Holonyms ("order Lechanorales" 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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