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/ˈlaɪ.kən/ · noun
Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc..
The Beaches of Lukannon–the winter wheat so tall, / The dripping, crinkled lichens, and the sea-fog drenching all!
It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight.
The nibble marks of the stone adze were still visible, though crusted over with scale lichens in most places.
Meanwhile, abiding a day of judgment, she fought ceaselessly to deny the bitter drops in her cup, to tear back the slow, the intangibly slow growth of a hot, corrosive lichen eating into her heart.
[…] making the rocks assume the mould of age and lichening the trees with damp beauty.
Use lichen when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lichen means Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc..
Common synonyms include cancer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The Beaches of Lukannon–the winter wheat so tall, / The dripping, crinkled lichens, and the sea-fog drenching all!
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