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 

• CLADONIA (noun)

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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)