Definition of "lichenous"
lichenous
adjective
comparative more lichenous, superlative most lichenous
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He went on foot across the wilder recesses of the park, where slimy streams of green moisture, exuding from decayed holes caused by old amputations, ran down the bark of the oaks and elms, the rind below being coated with a lichenous wash as green as emerald.
1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 27”, in The Woodlanders […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887
The tree sloths of the South American forests are among the oddest of mammalian types. They are small nocturnal forms with a lichenous growth which often gives a greenish tinge to their gray hair.
1933, Alfred Sherwood Romer, chapter 9, in Man and the Vertebrates, 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, published 1937, page 206
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