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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024li•chen /ˈlaɪkən/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Fungian organism made of a fungus and an alga, most commonly forming crusty patches on rocks and trees.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024li•chen (lī′kən),USA pronunciation n. - Fungiany complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- Pathologyany of various eruptive skin diseases.
v.t. - to cover with or as if with lichens.
- Greek leiché̄n
- Latin līchēn
- 1595–1605
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