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lichen
/ˈlaɪkən/
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What does lichen mean?
noun
- Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.
- (figuratively) Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.
verb
- To cover with lichen.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlaɪkən/
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It was a widespread, comfortable-looking building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches of lichen upon the grey walls.
It was the united products of infinitesimal vegetable causes, and these were neither stems, leaves, fruit, blades, prickles, lichen, nor moss.
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The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop.
In my collection, which includes, I believe, nearly the perfect Flora, there are twenty species, without reckoning a moss, lichen, and fungus.
He stepped over to the nearest tree—an old, old one with gray lichen all over its bark, but upholding a curtain of tangled sprays and branches.