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Iceland moss

A brittle, grayish-brown, Arctic lichen (Cetraria islandica) sometimes used as a food or in medicine.

Iceland moss

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions and N Europe, with brownish edible fronds

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Iceland moss - lichen with branched flattened partly erect thallus that grows in mountainous and Arctic regions; used as a medicine or food for humans and livestock; a source of glycerol

Cetraria islandica, Iceland lichen

lichen - any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.

Cetraria, genus Cetraria - foliose lichens chiefly of northern latitudes

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Iceland moss (redirected from Iceland mosses)

Iceland moss
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