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lichening

lichening noun: a covering of lichen.

Noun

lichening (uncountable)

  1. A covering of lichen.
    • The house was apparently very old; it had an almost prehistoric look about it, so rude and weatherbeaten was it, but the rudeness of the masonry and the lichening of the stones were no real indications of antiquity […]1892, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine, page 230

Origin of lichening

From lichen + -ing.

Questions about lichening

What does lichening mean?
Lichening means a covering of lichen.
What part of speech is lichening?
Lichening is a noun.

Words near lichening in the dictionary

  1. licheniform
  2. lichenify
  3. lichenifying
  4. lichenin
  5. lichenine
  6. lichening
  7. lichenins
  8. lichenisation
  9. lichenisations
  10. lichenise
  11. lichenised

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