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Sporting camouflage accessories, including lichen-like encrustations and moss‑like crinkled antennae, a male katydid poses on a twig that matches his ensemble perfectly.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2019
Through two world wars, through recession and renaissance, Morgan has adopted a lichen-like survival strategy: Just cling to the rocks, never change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2016
As they moved farther out to where the waves of the ebb tide were creaming against the rocks, the dark seamed sides were painted a delicate sea-pink by a lichen-like growth.
From Where the Sun Swings North by Barrett Willoughby
A few crustaceous lichen-like variolariae, leprariae, and urceorariae, were scattered about upon the basalts.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
Minerals glowed there, giant crystals, like jewels, crusted with strange lichen-like growths and colors.
From The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
