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- noun Plural form of
usnea .
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In the absence of the branches of the evernias, he picks the long beards of the usneas, the wartlike rosettes of the parmelias, the membranes of the stictises torn away in shreds; if he can find nothing better, he makes shift with the bushy tufts of the cladonias.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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