GENUS ALECTORIA

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Meaning:

Lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus

Synonyms:

Alectoria; genus Alectoria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Alectoria" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Alectoria"):

horsehair lichen; horsetail lichen (any of several lichens of the genus Alectoria having a thallus consisting of filaments resembling hair)

Holonyms ("genus Alectoria" is a member of...):

family Usneaceae; Usneaceae (fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria)