Cladonia

Definition: Cladonia

Cladonia

Noun

1. Type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia.

Date "Cladonia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Synonym: Cladonia

Synonym: genus Cladonia (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Cladonia

English words defined with "Cladonia": Cladonia rangiferina, Cup-moss ♦ genus Cladonia. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Cladonia": ascyphous ♦ scyphiferous. (references)

"Cladonia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cladonia" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	4	175,879

Expressions using "Cladonia": Cladonia rangiferina ♦ genus Cladonia. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: diaconal.
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-l-n-o"
	-1 letter: calando, nodical.
	-2 letters: alnico, alodia, anodal, anodic, canola, codlin, ladino, oilcan.
	-3 letters: acold, aland, alcid, aloin, canal, canid, coala, colin, danio, dolci, indol, lanai, liana, linac, naiad, nicad, nicol, nidal, nodal.
	-4 letters: acid, alan, anal, anil, anoa, cadi, caid, cain, calo, ciao, cion, clad, clan, clod, clon, coal, coda, coil, coin, cola, cold, coni.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-i-l-n-o"
	+2 letters: anodically, baldachino, calamondin, demoniacal.
	+3 letters: acidulation, anecdotical, baldachinos, calamondins, chancroidal, declamation, declaration, defalcation, educational, endocardial, nematocidal, redactional.
	+4 letters: acidulations, anecdotalism, anecdotalist, clapboarding, claudication, decalcomania, declamations, declarations, deescalation, defalcations, deglaciation, demoniacally, diagnostical, diatonically, disallowance, disclamation, indicational, sardonically, vacationland.
	+5 letters: aerodynamical, anaphylactoid, anecdotalisms, anecdotalists, anecdotically, archidiaconal, claudications, coeducational, decalcomanias, declinational, deescalations, deglaciations, dipsomaniacal, disallowances, disclamations, educationally, encyclopaedia, vacationlands, valedictorian.
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