family parmeliaceae

English Thesaurus

1. a family of lichens (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fungus family,
definition	:	includes lichen families (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus parmelia, parmelia,
definition	:	type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	cetraria, genus cetraria,
definition	:	foliose lichens chiefly of northern latitudes (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	division lichenes, lichenes,
definition	:	comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi (noun.plant)