cladonia
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1. type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | fungus genus, |
| definition | : | includes lichen genera (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | arctic moss, cladonia rangiferina, reindeer lichen, reindeer moss, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | cladoniaceae, family cladoniaceae, |
| definition | : | a family of lichens (noun.plant) |
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