ORDER LECHANORALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Lechanorales mean? 

• ORDER LECHANORALES (noun)
  The noun ORDER LECHANORALES has 1 sense:

1. category used in some classification systems for all lichens that produce apothecia

  Familiarity information: ORDER LECHANORALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER LECHANORALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Category used in some classification systems for all lichens that produce apothecia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lechanorales; order Lechanorales

Hypernyms ("order Lechanorales" is a kind of...):

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Holonyms ("order Lechanorales" 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)