Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- 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.
- (figurative) Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.
Verbi
- (transitive) To cover with lichen.
Esimerkit
- The Beaches of Lukannon–the winter wheat so tall– The dripping, crinkled lichens, and the sea-fog drenching all!
- It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight.
- The nibble marks of the stone adze were still visible, though crusted over with scale lichens in most places.
- 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | lichens |