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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
li·chen
[
lahy
-k
uh
n
]
/
ˈlaɪ
kən
/
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Part of Speech:
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Main Entry:
lichen
Part of Speech:
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry:
lichen
Part of Speech:
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Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Example Sentences
The trees are coming into their winter bareness, the only green is the
lichen
on their branches.
The white-washed walls are damp, streaked with
lichen
growing around the edges of the cement floor.
And the bark beneath the white
lichen
that always covers it is reddish too.
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The trees are coming into their winter bareness, the only green is the
lichen
on their branches.
The white-washed walls are damp, streaked with
lichen
growing around the edges of the cement floor.
And the bark beneath the white
lichen
that always covers it is reddish too.
After milking, they release them to graze on
lichen
.
Rusting nails and
lichen
on ancient concrete with weeds scraping a living through the cracks.
Forest floors are covered with ferns and mosses and the trees themselves drip with
lichen
.
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Main Entry:
lichen
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
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