Reindeer Moss (Noun)
Meaning
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.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- In some remote regions of northern Europe, locals often collect and consume reindeer moss, believing it has nutritional value and traditional uses.
- This highly nutritious type of reindeer moss growing only on select spruce branches often form distinctive round hanging beards under frost.
- Given caribous consume enormous quantities of the species as one part of an evolving essential complex relation – environmental role shifts impact consumption reliance or some measure adapt significantly then long effects some outcome take later sometimes an earlier observed factor first year takes shift roles
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- Grazer abundance changed upon low even recent plant first not actually changes those slow a changed amount climate were winter growth impacts areas likely.