English-Portuguese translations for lichen

• líquen
  Nas directrizes da OMS foram considerados valores diferentes para os diferentes tipos de vegetação - culturas, florestas, vegetação sensível e líquenes. The WHO guidelines looked at a range of values for different sorts of vegetation - crops, forests, sensitive vegetation and lichens.

Definition of lichen

• Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow patch#Noun|patches on old wall#Noun|walls, etc
• Something which gradually spread#Verb|spreads across something else, cause#Verb|causing damage#Noun|damage

Related words

• lichenology
• lichenous
• lichenlike
• lichenometry
• lichenological
• lichenologist
• lichenification
• lichenography
• lichenicolous