Etymology
Origin of lichenous
Example Sentences
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He saw a heart-touching sweep of Norman, Gothic and Jacobean stone, lichenous and somnolent in great gardens beside the fleet little River Skell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Odd, hard-shelled, bluish-green weeds; lichenous patches, dry as dust; invisible, un-Earthly bacteria—all were harmless, possibly even beneficial, to my charge.
From Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun
The bell was of cast bronze, with half-obliterated bosses upon it that had been the heads of cherubs; but wind and salt spray had given it a thick incrustation of bright, beautiful, lichenous green.
From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Going on, I walked for some distance beneath a semi-arch of the wind-bowed lichenous thorns that grow upon the cliff-edge.
From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
There was no soil, and apparently never had been any, and the silvery-gray of the lichenous limestone blinded one with its glare in the sunlight.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by William James Stillman
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