Lichen
11Lichen — Lichen, bei Linné Gattungsname für die Flechten, jetzt nur noch in der pharmazeut. Terminologie gebräuchlich (z.B. L. islandĭcus für Isländ. Moos u.a.). – In der Medizin s.v.w. Schwindflechte (Hautkrankheit) …
12lichen — The dominant pronunciation of the plant name is liy kǝn (as liken), although lich ǝn is also heard in BrE (though not in AmE) …
13lichen — ► NOUN ▪ a simple plant consisting of a fungus living in close association with an alga, typically growing as a crust or covering on rocks, walls, and trees. DERIVATIVES lichened adjective lichenous adjective. ORIGIN Greek leikh n …
14lichen — [lī′kən] n. [L < Gr leichēn, prob. < leichein, to LICK] 1. any of various small plants composed of a particular fungus and a particular alga growing in an intimate symbiotic association and forming a dual plant, commonly adhering in colored …
15Lichen — For other uses, see Lichen (disambiguation). Lichenes from Ernst Haeckel s Artforms of Nature, 1904 …
16Lichen — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Lichen (homonymie). Planche illustrative (de Ernst Haeckel (1834 1919)) …
17lichen — (li kèn ) s. m. 1° Terme de botanique. Végétaux agames, très avides d humidité, vivaces, mais dont la vie, qui se passe à l air libre, est interrompue par la sécheresse ; composés d un thalle crustacé, foliacé ou cylindrique, et se reproduisant …
18Lichen — Flechte * * * Li|chen 〈m. 4; unz.〉 1. 〈Med.〉 Hautkrankheit mit (meist stark juckender) Knotenbildung; Sy Knötchenausschlag, Knötchenflechte 2. 〈Bot.〉 = Flechte (2) [<grch. leichen „Flechte“] * * * Li|chen [ li:çe:n], der; s [lat. lichen <… …
19lichen — lichenization, n. lichenlike, adj. /luy keuhn/, n. 1. any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike,… …
20LICHEN — n. m. T. de Botanique Genre de plante cryptogame, ordinairement en forme de croûte, qui croît sur les troncs d’arbres, sur les rochers, sur les murs, etc. La récolte du lichen. Pâte de lichen …
