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lichenise

lichenise is the alternative spelling of lichenize.

Meaning of lichenize

Verb

lichenize (third-person singular simple present lichenizes, present participle lichenizing, simple past and past participle lichenized)

  1. (US, transitive) To cover with lichens.
    • They found that the same species of mycobiont could lichenize different species of alga , resulting in essentially identical lichens.2023, Lorentz C. Pearson, The Diversity and Evolution of Plants, page 213
  2. (US, intransitive) To form a lichen or species of lichen.
    • Today, one in five of all known fungal species form lichens, or "lichenize".2021, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds ..., page 86

Forms of lichenise

third-person singular presentlichenises
present participlelichenising
past participlelichenised
pastlichenised

Questions about lichenise

What is lichenise the alternative spelling of?
Lichenise is the alternative spelling of lichenize.

Words near lichenise in the dictionary

  1. lichenine
  2. lichening
  3. lichenins
  4. lichenisation
  5. lichenisations
  6. lichenise
  7. lichenised
  8. lichenises
  9. lichenising
  10. lichenism
  11. lichenist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lichenise (page history and authors); lichenize (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.

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