Lichen Definition

līkən
lichens
noun
Any of various small plants composed of a particular fungus and a particular alga (or blue-green alga) growing in an intimate symbiotic association and forming a dual plant, commonly adhering in colored patches or spongelike branches to rock, wood, soil, etc.
Webster's New World
Any of various skin diseases characterized by papules and enlarged skin markings.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To cover with lichens.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Lichen

Noun

Singular:
lichen
Plural:
lichens

Origin of Lichen

  • Latin līchēn a kind of plant from Greek leikhēn from leikhein to lick leigh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lichen Sentence Examples

  • The water moved silently over moss and lichen covered slabs of rocks, forming small pools in the low spots.

  • The reproductive organs of the lichen are of a typically fungal character, i.e.

  • The thallus or body of the lichen is of very different form in different genera.

  • Owing to its northerly position a large part of Ungava is treeless, and belongs to the barren grounds where caribou roam and feed on the socalled caribou moss, a greyish lichen.

  • There is an important crustose lichen assemblage on the rocks.

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Words Starting With

LLILIC

Words Ending With

NENHEN

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Words Starting With L and Ending With N

Starts With L & Ends With NStarts With LI & Ends With NStarts With L & Ends With EN

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With L6 Letter Words Ending With N