Lichen in a sentence as a noun

The reindeer and other grazers who eat lichen, etc.

You might as well tell people to go live in a cave, eat lichen for food and lick the walls for water.

[1] If there was anything living on Mars as big as a patch of lichen, it would have been found by now.

If so, I'll deal with the lichen planus - seriously, I'd rather have a sore mouth than a stroke.

I was thinking more along the lines of something akin to some kind of extremophile black mold, or lichen/algae.

I expect that's why the lichen argument appeared - we can easily see why being tall is a plus for photosynthesis.

It's possible the Prototaxites were giant lichen, which would allow them to live in non-fungus-friendly locales, rather like a tree.

Golgafrincham is a red semi-desert planet that is home of the Great Circling Poets of Arium and a species of particularly inspiring lichen.

Coal power plants during the industrial revolution covered the surrounding areas in soot and darkened the white lichen covering those trees, which meant that the white moths were more visible to predators.

Moss with small clover leaves around it, bracken, hummocks, hanging moss, all the leaves and pine needles, lichen, grass and flowers, heather, birch trees, gorse, Scotch broom, the distant trees and rocks, the small dots that were flies, all were specific pieces of code; all the shapes, the colors, everything is in the code.

Lichen definitions

noun

any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks

noun

any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.