GENUS USNEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Usnea mean? 

• GENUS USNEA (noun)
  The noun GENUS USNEA has 1 sense:

1. widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus

  Familiarity information: GENUS USNEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS USNEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Usnea; Usnea

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Usnea"):

beard lichen; beard moss; Usnea barbata (greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees)

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

family Usneaceae; Usneaceae (fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria)