"Cudbear" is a word in ENGLISH
A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is
obtained.
A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with
water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from
certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea.
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Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens.
Read the complete definitionHaving the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens.
Read the complete definitionThe ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.
Read the complete definitionA violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary …
Read the complete definitionAn interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the …
Read the complete definitionOne of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.]
Read the complete definitionA small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain …
Read the complete definitionNot furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetaria Islandica).
Read the complete definitionA white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric …
Read the complete definitionA name given to various lichens gathered for dyeing.
Read the complete definitionA kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.
Read the complete definitionA colorless crystalline substance, C20H22O10, extracted from certain lichens, as the various species of Rocella. It is a derivative of …
Read the complete definitionA colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of …
Read the complete definitionA genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to Evernia, a genus of lichens; as, evernic acid.
Read the complete definitionThe outer part of the fructification of most lichens.
Read the complete definitionCovered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose …
Read the complete definitionThe organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; …
Read the complete definitionA component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens.
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