Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of gymnocarpous lichens, giving name to the family Umbilicariei, natives of temperate and arctic regions.

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Examples

  • The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop.

    Walden 2004

  • The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop.

    Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

  • The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop.

    Walden~ Chapter 17 (historical) 1854

  • The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop.

    Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839

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