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roc·cel·la
\rōˈchelə\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Italian, archil (plant), alteration of oricello
: a genus (the type of the family Roccellaceae) of chiefly maritime rock-inhabiting lichens that have a fruticulose or pendulous thallus and include some (especially Roccella tinctoria) which are the chief sources of the dye archil and some which furnish litmus — compare lecanora, pertusaria
• roc·cel·line \-elə̇n, -eˌlīn\ adjective |