英语词汇“lichen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

li·chen

(līkən)

1. A composite organism made up of a fungus, usually an ascomycete, that grows symbiotically with an alga or a cyanobacterium and characteristically forms a crustlike or branching growth on rocks or tree trunks.

2. Medicine Any of various skin diseases characterized by patchy eruptions of small, firm papules.

tr.v. li·chened, li·chen·ing, li·chens

To cover with lichens.

[Latin līchēn, a kind of plant, from Greek leikhēn, from leikhein, to lick; see leigh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

lichen·ous adj.

lichen

common orange lichen

Xanthoria parietina

单词	lichen
释义	li·chen (līkən) n. 1. A composite organism made up of a fungus, usually an ascomycete, that grows symbiotically with an alga or a cyanobacterium and characteristically forms a crustlike or branching growth on rocks or tree trunks. 2. Medicine Any of various skin diseases characterized by patchy eruptions of small, firm papules. tr.v. li·chened, li·chen·ing, li·chens To cover with lichens. [Latin līchēn, a kind of plant, from Greek leikhēn, from leikhein, to lick; see leigh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] lichen·ous adj. lichen common orange lichen Xanthoria parietina
随便看	Wade wade wade in wade in (or into) wade into wader wade through wadi wading bird wady WAF WAF wafer waff waffle waffle waffled waffle iron waffler waffleweave wafflingly waffly waft wafter wag