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Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus
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usnea
Word definitions for usnea in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Usnea is a genus of mostly pale grayish-green fruticose lichens that grow like leafless mini- shrubs or tassels anchored on bark or twigs. The genus is in the family Parmeliaceae . It grows all over the world. Members of the genus are commonly called old ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A lichen of the genus ''Usnea''.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usnic \Us"nic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens ( Usnea , Parmelia , etc.).
Usage examples of usnea.
Some lichens of the species usnea melanoxantha lay upon the black rocks.
All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung with usnea lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath.