Usnea is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 61 anagrams from letters in Usnea (aensu).
1590-1600; New Latin, Medieval Latin Arabic or Persian ushnah
usnea barbata is collected from trees in Pennsylvania, and used for an orange colour for yarn.
The larger ones covered with lichens,—often hung with the long gray usnea.
It was in a section of Mississippi where there was no usnea growing within 60 miles.
The Indian said that the usnea lichen which we saw hanging from the trees was called chorchorque.