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Definition of Alectoria
1. Noun. Lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Usneaceae, Usneaceae
Member holonyms: Horsehair Lichen, Horsetail Lichen
Definition of Alectoria
1. Noun. a precious stone said to be found in the gizzard of cocks ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alectoria
Literary usage of Alectoria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1872)
"The lichens brought together in Alectoria, Nyl., though sufficiently congruous
in habit, ... Alectoria, De Not., those with brown spores of the type of A. ..."
2. Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland, and the by Thomas Rupert Jones, Great Britain Admiralty (1875)
"Alectoria divergens. The whole number • of species and varieties enumerated by
Hooker and Brown is only 37, while the Spitzbergen Lichens catalogued by ..."
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