MEANING
Covered with, resembling, or relating to lichens.
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- lichenous crust
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A lichenous crust covered the stone.
The lichenous surface broke into flakes.
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- lichenous
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more lichenous; superlative most lichenous where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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