Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reindeer_lichen

1 sense of reindeer lichen

Sense 1
reindeer moss, reindeer lichen, arctic moss, Cladonia rangiferina -- (an erect greyish branching lichen of Arctic and even some north temperate regions constituting the chief food for reindeer and caribou and sometimes being eaten by humans)
       => lichen -- (any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.)