The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lichenous \Li"chen*ous\ (l[imac]"k[e^]n*[u^]s), a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in
lichens; covered with lichens.
--G. Eliot.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Covered in lichen. 2 Of or resembling lichen.
Usage examples of "lichenous".
And all this time the lunar plants were growing around us, higher and denser and more entangled, every moment thicker and taller, spiked plants, green cactus masses, fungi, fleshy and lichenous things, strangest radiate and sinuous shapes.
Dark lichenous plants felt almost rubbery beneath her palm, and dozens of mushworms--green sluglike creatures that squished into a syrup under the slightest pressure--fed upon the plants.
The structures seemed isolated: menhirs erected on a plain once green, now the peculiar lichenous shade of scrubby desert, very much like the earliest television colour pictures of the Moon.
The ship was surrounded on three sides not by algal blooms or lichenous mats but by actual low scrub.
While the fisherman talked, Yama cut away a section of lichenous thatch and lashed the trap upright to a prop root.