Word "LICHEN" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.

Crossword Clues for LICHEN

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Aurally compare with crusty growth (6)
Compound plant, usually grey or yellow, growing on rocks and trees (6)
The Trouble with ___, 1960 novel by John Wyndham (6)
Crusty growth on rocks (6) Puzzler 17 Mar 2025
Organism occurring on tree trunks (6)
Plant in distorted line round church (6)
Orally compare the growth on trees (6)
Plant growing on stone (6)
Growth on forest trees
Symbiotic plant
Simple composite plant consisting of a fungus in association with an alga (6)
Fungoid alga from N. Chile (6)
Growth that is both algae and fungus which has small crusty leaves (6)
Moss-like plant that grows on rocks and walls (6) Puzzler 09 Nov 2024
Plant growing on rocks right outside church
Living things repose around China by end of autumn (6)
Organism found on a tree trunk, e.g. The Telegraph Quick 02 Sep 2024
Compound plant consisting of fungus and alga (6)
Moss-like organism (6) USA Today 24 Jul 2024
Plant: notice similarities when mentioned?
Plant-like symbiotic growth (6)
Some say it will compare to a plant on stone (6)
Fruit revolutionary put in soap ingredient (6)
Said to compare a composite organ (6)
Crusty growth on rocks (6) Puzzler 06 Mar 2024
'Trouble with ___', novel by John Wyndham (6)
Compound plant
Green growth on rocks and trees, anagram of EL CHIN (6)
Mosslike plant USA Today 07 Jul 2023
Verbally compare fungus with algae
Plant-like organism which thrives on rocks, walls and trees The Guardian Quick 17 Aug 2022
Growth on rock walls Newsday 07 Jun 2022
Large niche designed for thing growing among stones, say
Loudly compare fungus and alga
Fungus Canadiana 13 Sep 2021
Loudly compare fungus and alga
Reindeer moss, for instance Universal 24 Jul 2021
Litmus source Wall Street Journal 14 Apr 2021
Vegetation right outside church
Church in place that's not on top of mossy growth Irish Times Crosaire 14 Oct 2020
Plant growing on rocks The Times Concise 21 Sep 2020
Forest growth Newsday 17 May 2020
Growth on a tree New York Times 25 Feb 2020
Right about child's skin eruption
Bark missing from branch-like, mossy growth Irish Times Crosaire 21 May 2019
Eruption, hot, in Iceland and going of explosively – little new
Algae-fungi composite USA Today 13 Oct 2018
. Using chlorine, men come up with skin disease
Algae-fungi composite
What a rolling stone is unlikely to gather New York Times 19 Dec 2017
Primitive plants found on rocks Irish Times Simplex 15 Jul 2017
Fungus/alga symbiosis The Washington Post 23 Jun 2017
Fungus/alga symbiosis LA Times Daily 23 Jun 2017
Reindeer moss, e.g New York Times 14 May 2017
What a rolling stone is unlikely to gather
Fungus/alga symbiosis
Reindeer moss, e.g.
Plant put right outside the church
Composite plant right outside church The Times Cryptic 30 Nov 2015
In speech, compare fungus and alga The Telegraph Toughie 18 Nov 2015
Mossy growth
Growth on a rock
Forest growth
Rock growth
Growth on rock walls
Tree growth
Tree growth
Fungus-alga union
Fungus-alga union
Growth on trees and rocks
Oakmoss, e.g.
Rock growth
Fungus + alga
Symbiotic growth
Symbiotic growth
Woodsy growth
Growth on rocks
Woodsy growth
Tree-trunk cover, perhaps
Alga-fungus symbiosis
Rock growth
It may grow on rocks
Fungus-algae alliance
Rock cruster
Source of litmus
Fungus/alga symbiosis
Rock growth
Rock growth
Rock fungus
Rock plant
Beard moss, for one
Growth on trees and rocks
Alga-fungus combination
Iceland moss
Reindeer moss.
Rock greenery.
Mosslike plant.
Plant life of Antarctica.
Thallophyte.
Iceland moss.
Moss.
Rock plant.
Rock garden plant.
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