LICHEN in a Sentence
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1. That stone is no more exempt than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and from the defilement of the birds.
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Meanings and Examples of LICHEN
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lichen
n. any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks
n. any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.
Classic Sentence:
1 It was the united products of infinitesimal vegetable causes, and these were neither stems, leaves, fruit, blades, prickles, lichen, nor moss.
2 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.
3 Occasionally the marks were hidden under tufts of myrtle, which spread into large bushes laden with blossoms, or beneath parasitical lichen.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
Context Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
4 A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars' heads of the Baskervilles.
5 Then I stopped once more, for the crawling multitude of crabs had disappeared, and the red beach, save for its livid green liverworts and lichens, seemed lifeless.
6 The pale bark of the poplar sticks was mottled with lichens of sage-green and dusty gray; the newly sawed ends were fresh-colored, with the agreeable roughness of a woolen muffler.
7 That stone is no more exempt than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and from the defilement of the birds.
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