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lichenize

lichenize verb: to cover with lichens.

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 lichenize

third-person singular presentlichenizes
present participlelichenizing
past participlelichenized
pastlichenized
alternative UKlichenise

Origin of lichenize

From lichen + -ize.

Questions about lichenize

What does lichenize mean?
Lichenize means to cover with lichens.
What part of speech is lichenize?
Lichenize is a verb.
What is the past tense of lichenize?
The past tense of lichenize is lichenized.

Words near lichenize in the dictionary

  1. lichenist
  2. lichenists
  3. lichenivorous
  4. lichenization
  5. lichenizations
  6. lichenize
  7. lichenized
  8. lichenizes
  9. lichenizing
  10. lichenless
  11. lichenlike

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