Lichen is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LICHEN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cover with lichen
• cover with lichen
NOUN:
• a compound plant consisting of a fungus and an alga living symbiotically
• a simple slow-growing plant which typically forms a low crust-like, leaf-like, or branching growth on rocks, walls, and trees
• a skin disease in which small, hard round lesions occur close together
• small flowerless plant forming a crust on rocks, trees, etc
• One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.
• A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion.
• any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks
• any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cover with lichens (flowerless plants)

Words related to LICHEN

lichened14 lichening15 lichenoid15 lichenose14 lichenous14 lichens12

Words that contain LICHEN

lichens12 lichened14 lichenin13 lichening15 lichenins14 lichenism16 lichenist14 lichenoid15 lichenose14 lichenous14 lichenisms17 lichenists15 lichenology20 lichenologies19 lichenologist19 lichenological22 lichenologists20

How to use LICHEN in a sentence

• The trunk is a smooth, round, delicately tapered shaft, mostly without limbs, and colored rich purplish-brown, usually enlivened with tufts of yellow lichen.
• Prolonged moisture had peeled the plaster in flakes from the walls, and had covered the stones with blotches and rosettes of lichen.
• Below, here and there, patches of blackened moss or yellow lichen, a branch of mistletoe or a bunch of fern, break the lines of the mediaeval brickwork.
• They become, therefore, vast wastes of dry and barren sands in which no root can find nourishment, and of dreary rocks to which not even a lichen can cling.
• Isak had been getting lichen, as much as he could, and had a fine lot, all of the best.
• He crawled up on the broad hedge which fenced in the farm, and which was overgrown with briers and lichen.
• After a couple of years, moss and lichen began to grow on it.
• The cream-washed walls are broken up by the richly mellowed half-timber work, and above is the roof of grey green Horsham slabs splashed over with bright orange lichen.
• The grey lichen has crept over it, and wild evergreens hang from its crevices.
• The last of May the dainty nest is made of plant-down and lichen scales.
• Slowly it set upon the tomb its seal of moss and lichen and vine.
• Amid all of those about him, he saw only the face of Annadoah, golden as sunlight and pink as the lichen blossoms of spring.
• Bosses of rock thrust themselves forward, patched with lichen and moss, seamed and fringed with fern and heath.
• It was, however, quite old, for in several places the fragments were cemented together with a thick coat of lichen.
• They were six or seven times larger than life, of great antiquity, worn and lichen grown.
• Robert, such being the full front name of the sole Heir, found that he could not spread his Pinions in the narrow Streets of the lichen- covered Hamlet.
• He showed her how curiously one kind of lichen grew upon another, omitting its own stalk and leaves, and making use of those of the other.
• Here the charcoal-burners, half a century ago, had made a clearing, and left their dome-shaped stone kiln to cover itself with the green velvet and lace of lichen and vine.
• There were jagged, bare rocks, and rocks whose shoulders were half covered as if with torn coats of faded brocade, dim silver of lichen, and pale pink of wild flowers.
• There was no moss or lichen on this wind-scoured slope.
• The mosses, the brakes, the lichen, had all gained new beauty and interest in her eyes.
• In the beautifully-kept churchyard is the base of a fine cross, now prettily overgrown with ferns and lichen.
• Superficially it is a great way round from the lichen to the vine, but not so far by way of the centre.
• But he clung to it like lichen and refused to sell.
• I wandered down a mountain road, Past flower and rock and lichen gray, Alone with nature and her God Upon a flitting summer day.
• This combination is the foundation of all the processes for the manufacture of the lichen dyes throughout the world, however different these may appear to be in detail or results.
• He was necessarily left much alone, and thus had the chance to draw a charming little picture for Lisa, and frame it with acorns, lichen, and red maple leaves.
• Brown or green, red or yellow mosses and lichen spread their romantic tints on trees and seats and roofs and stones.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.