See lichenize on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2023, Lorentz C. Pearson, The Diversity and Evolution of Plants, page 213:",
"text": "They found that the same species of mycobiont could lichenize different species of alga , resulting in essentially identical lichens.",
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"To cover with lichens."
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"(transitive) To cover with lichens."
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"ref": "2021, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds ..., page 86:",
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"(intransitive) To form a lichen or species of lichen."
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