English Explanatory Dictionary

pin lichen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of certain crustose lichen with small upward-pointing fruiting bodies supposed to resemble dressmakers' pins, including members of the genera Calicium (stubble lichen) and Chaenotheca (needle lichen, stubble lichen, whisker lichen).

Word forms

pin lichen pin lichens

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