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Definition of Reindeer lichen

1. Noun. An erect greyish branching lichen of Arctic and even some north temperate regions constituting the chief food for reindeer and caribou and sometimes being eaten by humans.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reindeer Lichen

Literary usage of Reindeer lichen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1849)
"Although the Icelanders have not, like the Laplanders, their herds of deer, yet the reindeer lichen grows in abundance on their plains of lava, ..."

2. The Nature Library by Doubleday, Page & Co., Firm, Publ (1907)
"... reindeer lichen—A VARIETY. reindeer lichen. ... VIII reindeer lichen, VARIETY ALPESTRIS. Copyright, 19°7- k PHYSCIA ..."

3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1860)
"... arctic regions of Lapland the reindeer lichen (cladonia rangiferina) gro^s in the utmost profusion, and overspreads plains hundreds of miles in extent. ..."

4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"... in which consists his wealth, and on which depends the very existence of the natives of that country. The reindeer lichen was at one time by edict of ..."

5. Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters by Alfred Marshall Mayer (1883)
"... or reindeer lichen, abounds, to the highest mountain fastnesses ; then again, when the cold nights give warning of the changing season, descending to ..."

6. Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters by Alfred Marshall Mayer (1883)
"... and woods where its principal article of diet, the Cladonia rangi- ferina, or reindeer lichen, abounds, to the highest mountain fastnesses ; then again, ..."

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