Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of lichens, representative of the family Cladonici.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the type genus of
Cladoniaceae ; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia
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Examples
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Surely never a particle of dust has touched leaf or crown of all these blessed mosses; and how bright were the red rims of the cladonia cups beside them, and the fruit of the dwarf cornel!
Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876
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The rock is on the east bank; it is a shelf of granite, covered with psora, cladonia, and other lichens.
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The rock is on the east bank; it is a shelf of granite, covered with psora, cladonia, and other lichens.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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It's one of the Cladonia, maybe C. bellidiflora, or lipstick cladonia, C. macilenta.
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