Word.ws English Dictionary

lichened

lichened adjective: covered with lichen.

lichened: covered with lichen
Image: brewbooks from near Seattle, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Adjective

lichened (comparative more lichened, superlative most lichened)

  1. Covered with lichen.
    • The main knotty trunk seems to be made up of craggy granite boulders like those on which it stands, being about the same color as the mossy, lichened boulders and about as rough.1912, John Muir, chapter 5, in The Yosemite
    • Two particularly attractive cottages, roofed with mossy and lichened slates, stand at the churchyard's eastern gate, looking up a long avenue of yew trees.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 127

lichened meaning in Bengali

lichened in Bengali

লাইকেন দ্বারা আচ্ছাদিত

Forms of lichened

comparativemore lichened
superlativemost lichened

Origin of lichened

From lichen + -ed.

Words formed from lichened

Questions about lichened

What does lichened mean?
Lichened means covered with lichen.
What is lichened in Bengali?
Lichened in Bengali is লাইকেন দ্বারা আচ্ছাদিত. See Lichened meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is lichened?
Lichened is an adjective.

Words near lichened in the dictionary

  1. lichenans
  2. lichenase
  3. lichenases
  4. lichenate
  5. lichenates
  6. lichened
  7. Licheng
  8. lichenic
  9. lichenic acid
  10. lichenicidin
  11. lichenicolous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lichened (page history and authors); lichened (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lichened.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lichened. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.