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lichenizes

lichenizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about lichenizes

What is lichenizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lichenizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lichenize.

Words near lichenizes in the dictionary

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

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