genus usnea

1. 1.

   widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus

   SynonymsUsnea

   Broaderfungus genus

   Part ofUsneaceae

Questions about genus usnea

What does genus usnea mean?

genus usnea means "widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus".

What is another word for genus usnea?

Close synonyms include Usnea. 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 usnea a common word?

genus usnea 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.