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CLADONIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cladonia mean?
• CLADONIA (noun)
The noun CLADONIA has 1 sense:
1. type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia
Familiarity information: CLADONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cladonia; genus Cladonia
Hypernyms ("Cladonia" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "Cladonia"):
arctic moss; Cladonia rangiferina; reindeer lichen; reindeer moss (an erect greyish branching lichen of Arctic and even some north temperate regions constituting the chief food for reindeer and caribou and sometimes being eaten by humans)
Holonyms ("Cladonia" is a member of...):
Cladoniaceae; family Cladoniaceae (a family of lichens)
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