Crossword-Solution: LICHENS
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| Fungous growths | 1 answer |
| Fungus-alga unions | 1 answer |
| Growths on rocks and bark | 1 answer |
| Growths on rocks or tree trunks | 1 answer |
| Growths on tree trunks or rocks | 1 answer |
| Mosses. | 1 answer |
| Mosslike growths | 1 answer |
| Mosslike organisms | 1 answer |
| Mossy growths | 1 answer |
| Plants for rock gardens. | 1 answer |
| Rock plants | 1 answer |
| Rock growths | 2 answers |
| ASCOMYCETES | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LICHENS (5)
Letting the eyes follow along the course of the stream, they could catch the reflected light from its water, at some short distance within the forest, but soon lost all traces of it amid the bewilderment of tree-trunks and underbrush, and here and there a huge rock covered over with gray lichens.
Then I stopped once more, for the crawling multitude of crabs had disappeared, and the red beach, save for its livid green liverworts and lichens, seemed lifeless.
Some lichens lay upon the black rocks; some microscopic plants, rudimentary diatomas, a kind of cells placed between two quartz shells; long purple and scarlet weed, supported on little swimming bladders, which the breaking of the waves brought to the shore.
The inveterate antagonism of these black precipices to all strugglers for life is in no way more forcibly suggested than by the paucity of tufts of grass, lichens, or confervae on their outermost ledges.
There were maiden-hair ferns among them too! and the biggest lichens you ever saw on the fence, while in the hollow of a rotten rail a little chippy bird always built a hair nest.
Quotes with LICHENS (3)
One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like fungu…
It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be , is every bit as strong as ours-arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose …
Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).