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REINDEER MOSS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
arctic moss; Cladonia rangiferina; reindeer lichen; reindeer moss
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("reindeer moss" is a kind of...):
lichen (any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.)
Holonyms ("reindeer moss" is a member of...):
Cladonia; genus Cladonia (type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia)
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