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LICHENALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Category used especially in former classifications for organisms now constituting the division Lichenes
Synonyms:
Lichenales; order Lichenales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Lichenales" is a kind of...):
fungus order (the order of fungi)
Holonyms ("Lichenales" 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)