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usnea

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us·ne·a  (sn-, z-)
n.
Any of various widely distributed lichens of the genus Usnea, characterized by a gray pendulous thallus.
[From Arabic 'una, moss; akin to Persian una.]
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Noun1.usnea - widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallusUsnea - widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus
genus Usnea
fungus genus - includes lichen genera
family Usneaceae, Usneaceae - fruticose lichens having prostrate or erect or pendulous thalli: genera Usnea, Evernia, Ramalina, Alectoria
beard lichen, beard moss, Usnea barbata - greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees
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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; but now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
 
 
 
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