Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of gymnocarpous lichens, giving name to the family Umbilicariei, natives of temperate and arctic regions.
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Examples
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The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop.
Walden 2004
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The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop.
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The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop.
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The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop.
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
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