Lichen

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

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

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• The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It was the united products of infinitesimal vegetable causes, and these were neither stems, leaves, fruit, blades, prickles, lichen, nor moss. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The sitting-room of our client opened by a long, low, latticed window on to the ancient lichen-tinted court of the old college. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It was a widespread, comfortable-looking building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches of lichen upon the grey walls. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.

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