GENUS CLADONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cladonia mean? 

• GENUS CLADONIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS 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: GENUS CLADONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS 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 ("genus Cladonia" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus Cladonia" is a member of...):

Cladoniaceae; family Cladoniaceae (a family of lichens)