lichenous

Definitions

Examples

• One turns back to the still old house, and sees a grey and lichenous facade with a very finely arched entrance.

• Going on, I walked for some distance beneath a semi-arch of the wind-bowed lichenous thorns that grow upon the cliff-edge.

• The dry lichenous growth, crisp as cigar-ash, will carry the fire along like a train of gunpowder.

• We stumbled away into it, taking cover under some lichenous bushes, while we looked for the highway.