Iceland lichen

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• Iceland lichen — n. (also Iceland moss) a mountain and moorland lichen, Cetraria islandica, with edible branching fronds. * * * noun lichen with branched flattened partly erect thallus that grows in mountainous and Arctic regions; used as a medicine or food for… …   Useful english dictionary

• Iceland moss — noun lichen with branched flattened partly erect thallus that grows in mountainous and Arctic regions; used as a medicine or food for humans and livestock; a source of glycerol • Syn: ↑Iceland lichen, ↑Cetraria islandica • Hypernyms: ↑lichen •… …   Useful english dictionary

• Iceland moss — (also Iceland lichen) noun a brown branching lichen with stiff spines along the margins of the fronds, which can be boiled to produce an edible jelly. [Cetraria islandica.] …   English new terms dictionary

• Iceland moss — Scientific classification Kingdom: Fungi Division: Ascomyco …   Wikipedia

• lichen islandicus — lichen is·lan·di·cus ī sland i kəs n ICELAND MOSS …   Medical dictionary

• Iceland moss — Ice land moss (Bot.) A kind of lichen ({Cetraria Icelandica}) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Iceland moss — n. an arctic lichen (Cetraria islandica) sometimes used as a food and in folk medicine …   English World dictionary

• Iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine. [1795 1805] * * * ▪ lichen       fruticose (branched, bushy) lichen with an upright thallus usually attached in one place. It varies in… …   Universalium

• Lichen — For other uses, see Lichen (disambiguation). Lichenes from Ernst Haeckel s Artforms of Nature, 1904 …   Wikipedia

• Iceland moss — Ice·land moss .ī slən(d) mȯs, .ī .slan(d) n a lichen of the genus Cetraria (C. islandica) of mountainous and arctic regions sometimes used in medicine or as food * * * 1. Cetraria islandica, a lichen native to Iceland. 2. a preparation of the… …   Medical dictionary

• lichen — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. fungus growth, fungus alga, thallophyte, epiphyte, symbiont; see also plant . Types of lichen include: foliaceous, crustaceous, fruticose, geLatinous, Iceland moss, reindeer moss, reindeer lichen, Rocella tinctoria, Rocella… …   English dictionary for students