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Meaning of "lichens"
lichen (noun) - A simple slow-growing plant that typically forms a low crusty, leaflike, or branching growth on rocks, walls, and trees. Lichens are a symbiotic combination of a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium that grow together in a mutually beneficial relationship
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- plural of lichen
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Lichens from the same blood line.
There are diverse lichens growing on the trees.
Lichens are organisms in the form of fungal filaments.
He was knowledgeable about lichens and discovered species.
These lichens are at least several decades old.
Flora of mosses and lichens are very diverse.
Today lichens are used by humans in many industries.
The larvae feed on lichens growing on stones.
The lichens provided even more color.
Laboratory culture of lichens and lichen symbionts.
Lichens are much younger than scientists thought.
Mosses and lichens cover the rocks.
Lichens are fungi that have discovered agriculture.
A fruiting body of lichens in which spores are produced.
Lichens encrust much of the exposed rock.
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A wide diversity of lichens and bryophytes are represented.
It also hosts several rare species of lichens.
Leprose lichens have no inner or outer cortex.
The fossil record for lichens is poor.
Large sized lichens have completely disappeared.
The whole temple is covered with lichens.
Crustose lichens prefer sites of lower aridity.
Litmus can be found in different species of lichens.
Mosses and lichens cover exposed rocks.
The larvae probably feed on tree lichens.
Plants and lichens sentinels of air quality.
They are also commonly called stubble lichens.
These observations identified lichens as important bioindicators.
Radioactive elements can also accumulate in lichens.
Mosses and lichens grow in some areas.
Optimization of extraction conditions of lichens has been developed.
Lichens are present on stable rock surfaces.
There are fossilized lichens embedded in amber.
Lichens and mosses are both abundant and diverse.
Mosses and lichens dominate though.
Lichens play an important role environmentally.
They also like lichens that grow on trees.
Lichens and lichenicolous fungi grow on the island.
Mosses and lichens not so harmless.
Lichens are a common source of natural dyes.
The role of bryophytes and lichens in terrestrial ecosystems.
Lichens are classified by the fungal component.
Standing crop of canopy lichens was measured in concurrent studies.
Lichens are formed of fungus and alga living in symbiosis.
There is no provincial classification of this type for lichens.
Like other lichens it is a symbiosis of a fungus and an alga.
Effect of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on the proportion of lichens.
Several lichens are found in marine environments.
Lecanora is a genus of lichen commonly called rim lichens.
Mosses and lichens are abundant in its wetland ecosystem.
