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lichen
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin l?ch?n (“ringworm”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (leikh?n).
Pronunciation
- enPR: l?'k?n, IPA(key): /?la?.k?n/
- (also, especially in the UK) IPA(key): /?l?.t??n/
- Rhymes: -a?k?n, -?t??n
- Homophone: liken
Noun
lichen (countable and uncountable, plural lichens or lichen)
- Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow patches on old walls, etc.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, ch XI
- 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.
- 1915, John Muir, Travels in Alaska, ch V
- The nibble marks of the stone adze were still visible, though crusted over with scale lichens in most places.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, ch XI
- (figuratively) Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.
- Synonym: cancer
Hyponyms
- (symbiotic organism): macrolichen, microlichen
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- lichen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- algae
- fungus
- Iceland moss
- moss
- reindeer moss
References
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lichen, from Ancient Greek ?????? (leikh?n).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.k?n/
Noun
lichen m (plural lichens)
- lichen
Derived terms
- lichen plan
- lichénique
Further reading
- “lichen” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- chelin
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (leikh?n).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?li?.k?e?n/, [?li?k?e?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?li.ken/, [?li?k?n]
Noun
l?ch?n m (genitive l?ch?nos or l?ch?nis); third declension
- (literally) a cryptogamic species of vegetation growing on trees, lichen
- (transferred sense, medicine) an eruption on the skin of men and beasts, a tetter, ringworm
- (and especially) a callous excrescence upon the leg of a horse, used as a medicine
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).
Derived terms
- l?ch?nif?rmis
Related terms
- l?ch?na
- l?ch?nicos
Descendants
- English: lichen
- French: lichen
- Galician: lique
- Portuguese: líquen
- Spanish: liquen
References
- l?ch?n in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- l?ch?n in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 909/3
- “l?ch?n” on page 1,029/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Romanian
Etymology
From French lichen
Noun
lichen m (plural licheni)
- lichen
Declension
lichen From the web:
- what lichens are edible
- what lichen planus
- what lichen means
- what lichen sclerosus
- what lichen can you eat
- what lichens do
- what lichen grows in clean air
- what lichenified eczema
bryophyte
English
Etymology
From Bryophyta, from Ancient Greek ????? (brúon, “moss”) + ????? (phutón, “plant”) ( +? -phyte).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b????.?.f??t/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /?b?a??.?.f?it/
Noun
bryophyte (plural bryophytes)
- (botany) Any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts and hornworts and corresponding to all embryophytes that are not vascular plants.
- 2002, William R. Buck, Bryophytes, entry in Niles Eldredge (editor), Life on Earth, page 202,
- Because of their small size and often delicate structure, bryophytes have a poor fossil record, dating back only about 290 million years.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 312:
- And so it was that I was introduced to Len Ellis and the quiet world of bryophytes – mosses to the rest of us.
- 2002, William R. Buck, Bryophytes, entry in Niles Eldredge (editor), Life on Earth, page 202,
Translations
See also
- Anthocerotophyta (the hornworts)
- cryptogam
- embryophyte
- Marchantiophyta (the liverworts)
- pteridophyte
- spermatophyte
bryophyte From the web:
- what bryophytes
- what bryophytes include
- what bryophyte is found in bogs
- what bryophytes lack
- bryophytes means
- bryophyte what does it mean
- what is bryophytes in biology
- what are bryophytes and pteridophytes
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