lichen

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from λείχω (leíkhō, “to lick”). Originally used of liverwort; the modern sense first recorded 1715.

Noun

 * 1) Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.
 * 2)  Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.
 * 1)  Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.
 * 1)  Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.
 * 1)  Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أُشْنَة, حَزَاز
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: şibyə
 * Basque: liken
 * Belarusian: ліша́й, ліша́йнік
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ли́шей
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: likeno
 * Estonian: samblik
 * Faroese: skón
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: lichil
 * Galician:, , , ouricela, escamenta,
 * Georgian: ლიქენი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λειχήν
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: लाइकेन, शैवाक, शैक,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, skóf
 * Ingrian: kangassammal, kantosammal
 * Irish: léicean
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қына
 * Khmer: កវកាប្យ
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຜາກ
 * Latin: līchēn
 * Latvian: ķērpis
 * Lithuanian: kerpės
 * Macedonian: лишај
 * Malay: kulampair, liken
 * Maori: pukoko, hawa
 * Marathi: दगडफूल, धोंडफूल, फत्तरफूल, गिरीपुष्पक, शैलज
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: хаг өвс
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠭ ᠡᠪᠡᠰᠦ
 * Navajo: dláád
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: lav
 * Old English: ragu
 * Ottoman Turkish: مانطار, طاش مانطاری
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, liszaj
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ли̏ша̄ј
 * Roman:
 * Shor: сырынма
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper: lišawa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ligbus
 * Tajik: гулсанг
 * Tatar: лишайник
 * Thai:, , หญ้าม็อส
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: лиша́йник
 * Urdu: اشنہ
 * Uyghur: مۇخ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: cen

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  a cryptogamic species of vegetation, lichen
 * 2)  an eruption on the skin, a tetter, ringworm
 * 3)  a callous excrescence upon the leg of a horse,

Verb

 * 1)  to kick out, to throw out, to sack

Synonyms



 * 1)  to lift (a little)
 * 2)  to get up, to leave (as a guest), to get to one's feet
 * 3)  to lift (fog, mist)

Etymology
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