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Type Words
Type of skin disease, disease of the skin, skin disorder
Has types lichen ruber planus, lichen planus
Type Words
Type of fungus
Has types cladonia rangiferina, crotal, crottal, crottle, horsehair lichen, horsetail lichen, iceland lichen, iceland moss, lecanora, reindeer lichen, reindeer moss, roccella, roccella tinctoria, usnea barbata, ascolichen, basidiolichen, beard lichen, beard moss, cetraria islandica, arctic moss

Examples of lichen

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Yellow-throated warblers and other birds forage for bugs within lichen colonies.
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Silvery lichen dripped from gnarled oaks, completing the lost-in-fairyland feel.
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Such structures occur commonly in biology, things like fungus, lichen and weeds.
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It is made from small twigs, dried grasses, moss and lichen and lined with down.
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Vezdaea schuyleriana lichen is named for an Academy of Natural Sciences botanist.
From the sciencedaily.com
The underside of the lichen contains a blue-green algae known as cyanobacteria.
From the guardian.co.uk
The existence of lichen showed that it had not been completely covered by soil.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Lichen planus is an outbreak of intolerably itchy, flat, angled, purple spots.
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The other lichen that is well established on the Range is Cladonia portentosa.
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  • 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.
  • Lichens (sometimes) are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic association of a fungus (the mycobiont) with a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont or phycobiont), usually either a green alga (commonly Trebouxia) or cyanobacterium (commonly Nostoc). ...
  • Licheu0144 Stary is a village in the administrative district of Gmina u015Alesin, within Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4u00A0mi) south-east of u015Alesin, 14u00A0km (9u00A0mi) north-east of Konin, and 99u00A0km (62u00A0mi) east of the regional capital Poznau0144. The village has a population of 1,100.
  • (Lichens (musician)) Lichens is the name of Robert Lowe's musical project, created for performance and recording solo and with collaborators.
  • Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of fungi and algae; often found as white or yellow patches on old walls, etc
  • (lichened) Covered with lichen
  • (Lichens) compounds composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an algae, typically forming a crust like, scaly or branchy growth on rocks or trees.
  • (LICHENS) in botany, compound or dual organisms each consisting of an association of a higher fungus, with a usually unicellular, sometimes filamentous, alga. ...