lichenous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   covered with or bearing lichen

   They rested in a lichenous hollow beneath the pines.

2. 2
   adj

   composed of lichen

   A lichenous crust spread slowly across the exposed stone.

3. 3
   adj

   resembling lichen in texture, color, or appearance

   The wall had a green, lichenous pattern of stains.

Formed from lichen + -ous ("full of, characterized by"). Lichen ultimately comes through Latin from Greek leichen, related to leichein ("to lick"), perhaps referring to the organism's spreading surface.

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