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GENUS ROCCELLA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Roccella mean?
• GENUS ROCCELLA (noun)
The noun GENUS ROCCELLA has 1 sense:
1. chiefly fruticose maritime rock-inhabiting lichens
Familiarity information: GENUS ROCCELLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly fruticose maritime rock-inhabiting lichens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Roccella" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "genus Roccella"):
roccella; Roccella tinctoria (a source of the dye archil and of litmus)
Holonyms ("genus Roccella" is a member of...):
family Roccellaceae; Roccellaceae (a fungus family of division Lichenes)
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