lichened

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adjective

Covered with lichen.

Scrabble 14

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adjectivelichened (comparative more lichened, superlative most lichened)

comparative more lichened · superlative most lichened

  1. Covered with lichen.

    Two particularly attractive cottages, roofed with mossy and lichened slates, stand at the churchyard's eastern gate, looking up a long avenue of yew trees.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 127
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    The main knotty trunk seems to be made up of craggy granite boulders like those on which it stands, being about the same color as the mossy, lichened boulders and about as rough.

    1912, John Muir, chapter 5, in The Yosemite

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