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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

Martian lichenlike plants might get enough water out of vapor from the icecaps, which evaporate without melting.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Bates, Harry