Local English word record

reindeer moss

noun · 1 sense

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

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reindeer lichen, arctic moss, cladonia rangiferina

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