genus pertusaria

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   crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus

   SynonymsPertusaria

   Broaderfungus genus

   Part ofPertusariaceae

Questions about genus pertusaria

What does genus pertusaria mean?

genus pertusaria means "crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus".

What is another word for genus pertusaria?

Close synonyms include Pertusaria. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus pertusaria a common word?

genus pertusaria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.