lichen
Example Sentences
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On the salvaged tiles alone, you can find salt efflorescence, water stains, fretting, lichen, smears of soot, scratches and gashes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025
“A rich garden of life has grown on the megaliths, an exceptional lichen garden has grown. So it’s potentially quite concerning.”
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024
This is the case of the wolf lichen -- threatened throughout Europe -- , which now finds refuge in the oldest trees in the high mountains of the Pyrenees.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024
The eyes of reindeer shine blue in winter, an adaptation that enables them to find the lichen on which they feed more easily in months of darkness.
From National Geographic • Feb. 1, 2024
When she was riding, sometimes she would suddenly glimpse dark brown skin, mottled like lichen.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
