lichenlike
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a word derived from
lichen.
lichennounany 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.
Example Sentences
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Grimy gray, sprinkled in places with lichenlike green stuff, it pictures a technological future run amok.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2011
In their place are blackish warts, lichenlike incrustations, or sick-looking globules.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Martian lichenlike plants might get enough water out of vapor from the icecaps, which evaporate without melting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The over-arching trees were less closely packed, and they came across occasional rock clearings which were bare of vegetation except for a dense carpet of brown, lichenlike vegetation that secreted an astonishing amount of juice.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Harry Bates