LICHENALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lichenales mean? 

• LICHENALES (noun)
  The noun LICHENALES has 1 sense:

1. category used especially in former classifications for organisms now constituting the division Lichenes

  Familiarity information: LICHENALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LICHENALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Category used especially in former classifications for organisms now constituting the division Lichenes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lichenales; order Lichenales

Hypernyms ("Lichenales" is a kind of...):

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Holonyms ("Lichenales" 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)