The corpus record — Latin

lichen

lichen · m

a cryptogamic species of vegetation growing on trees, lichen

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

līchēn — Lewis & Short

līchēn, ēnis, m., = leixh/n,

I a cryptogamic species of vegetation growing on trees, lichen.

I Lit., Plin. 26, 4, 10, § 21.—

II Transf., an eruption on the skin of men and beasts, a tetter, ringworm: in fricando lichene, Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 118: sordidi lichenes, Mart. 11, 98, 5.—Of beasts, Plin. 30, 10, 27, § 88.—

B Esp., a callous excrescence upon the leg of a horse, used as a medicine: lichene equi cum oleo infuso per aurem, Plin. 28, 11, 49, § 180; 28, 17, 67, § 230 saep.

Where it came from

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