pin lichens

A form of pin lichen — Any of certain crustose lichen with small upward-pointing fruiting bodies supposed to resemble dressmakers' pins, including members of the genera Calicium (stubble lichen) and Chaenotheca (needle lichen, stubble lichen, whisker lichen).

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noun
  1. pluralplural of pin lichen
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