ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsLlichen
ISEE/SSATmedium
lichen
Meaning: a crusty, moss-like organism made of fungus and algae growing together on rocks or bark
lichen in a sentence
How lichen is used in real sentences:
Bright green patches covered the north side of every boulder in the shaded ravine.
Patches of gray-green lichen clung to the old stone wall, slowly breaking down its surface over decades.
“For the forest side, Inez copied the pale lichen clinging in crusty patches to stones beside the theater.”
— from the passage The Turning Walls
Where it comes from
From Greek leichen 'tree moss'
Memory hook
LICHEN sounds like 'LIKEN' — two organisms, fungus and algae, LIKENed together as one.