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lichenizing

lichenizing is the present participle and gerund 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 lichenizing

What is lichenizing the present participle and gerund of?
Lichenizing is the present participle and gerund of lichenize.

Words near lichenizing in the dictionary

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

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