lichenizedadj.
/ˈlʌɪkənʌɪzd/ a. Covered with lichens.
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lichened1823
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1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxiii. 297 Above the weathered and lichenized surfaces of the sandstone.
b. Of a fungus or an alga: living in association with (respectively) an alga or a fungus so as to form a lichen; adapted or evolved to live as a component of a lichen.
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lichenized1942
1942 Proc. Sect. Sci. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. Amsterdam XLV. 276 We believe to have found in the lichenized algal covers of Pleurococcus, Apatococcus and allied species, a better object of study in this respect.
1952 Symbolae Bot. Upsalienses XII. 10 It is certainly difficult in many cases to establish whether or not an organism should be regarded as a lichen. One type of questionable or easily misinterpreted cases is provided by such lichen-fungi as are sometimes lichenized and sometimes live without algae.
1952 Symbolae Bot. Upsalienses XII. 10 A lichenized fungus means in the present paper always a fungus which lives in symbiosis (s. str.) with an alga and which is not a parasymbiont.
1960 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 47 677 (heading) Some new and interesting species of Trebouxia, a genus of lichenized algae.
1973 Nature 4 May p. xv (advt.) Taxonomic research in the ascomycetous fungi or their lichenised relatives.
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