ramalina

1. 1.

   shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus

   Synonymsgenus Ramalina

   Broaderfungus genus

   Part ofUsneaceae

Other forms of ramalina

plural

ramalinas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ramalina

What does ramalina mean?

ramalina means "shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus".

How many syllables are in ramalina?

ramalina has 4 syllables: ra-ma-li-na. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for ramalina?

Close synonyms include genus Ramalina. 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 ramalina a common word?

ramalina is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.