lichen

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 lī'kən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc. countable,uncountable
    — The Beaches of Lukannon–the winter wheat so tall, / The dripping, crinkled lichens, and the sea-fog drenching all!
  2. Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Meanwhile, abiding a day of judgment, she fought ceaselessly to deny the bitter drops in her cup, to tear back the slow, the intangibly slow growth of a hot, corrosive lichen eating into her heart.
动词 v.
  1. To cover with lichen. transitive
    — […] making the rocks assume the mould of age and lichening the trees with damp beauty.

词形变化

lichens plural lichen plural lichens present,singular,third-person lichening participle,present lichened participle,past lichened past

词汇关系

衍生词
antilichen antler lichen ascolichen ball lichen basidolichen beard lichen blister lichen borderline lichen British soldiers lichen byssoid lichen cephalolichen chlorolichen cobblestone lichen comma lichen coral lichen corticolous lichen cracked lichen crustose lichen crustose placodioid lichen cup lichen cyanolichen discolichen dog lichen dust lichen earth lichen edible lichen endolithic lichen epiphyllous lichen equine tropical lichen filamentous lichen firedot lichen foliose lichen fruticose lichen gelatinous lichen globe lichen glyphis lichen gold lichen goldspeck lichen horsehair lichen horsetail lichen Iceland lichen jelly lichen jewel lichen leaf lichen lecanorine lichen leprose lichen letter lichen lichenaceous lichenal lichenase lichened lichenic lichenicolous lichenification licheniform lichenify lichenin lichenisation lichenism lichenist lichenivorous lichenization lichenize lichenized lichenless lichenlike lichen moth lichenographer lichenographic lichenographical lichenographist lichenography lichenoid lichenologist lichenology lichenometry lichenose lichenous lichen planus lichen sclerosus licheny lung lichen macrolichen manna lichen map lichen needle lichen orange lichen pin lichen placodioid lichen reindeer lichen rim lichen saxicolous lichen script lichen sea lichen snow lichen squamulose lichen stone lichen string-of-sausage lichen stubble lichen sunburst lichen terricolous lichen thrush lichen tropical lichen tube lichen vagrant lichen Wilson's lichen wolf lichen

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin līchēn, from Ancient Greek λειχήν (leikhḗn), from λείχω (leíkhō, “to lick”). Originally used of liverwort; the modern sense first recorded 1715.
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin līchēn, from Ancient Greek λειχήν (leikhḗn), from λείχω (leíkhō, “to lick”). Originally used of liverwort; the modern sense first recorded 1715.
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