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lichen
1601, from L. lichen, from Gk. leichen, originally "what eats around
itself," probably from leichein "to lick" (see lick). Originally used
of liverwort; the modern sense first recorded 1715.
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li⋅chen [lahy-kuhn]
–noun
1. any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in
symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow,
brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or
branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
2. Pathology. any of various eruptive skin diseases.
–verb (used with object)
3. to cover with or as if with lichens.
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