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lichen (n.)
c. 1600, from Latin
lichen
, from Greek
leichen
, originally "what eats around itself," probably from
leichein
"to lick" (see
lick
). Originally used of liverwort; the modern sense first recorded 1715. Related:
Lichenaceous
.