lichenous adjective3 •Covered in lichen.We made a few gargantuan strides, leapt three or four times more, and sat down at last in a lichenous hollow. — 1900 •Resembling lichen.The mouth becomes the seat of a parasitic stomatitis; the skin is harsh and dry; small boils or a lichenous rash make their appearance. — 1907 •Composed of lichen.The tree sloths of the South American forests are among the oddest of mammalian types. They are small nocturnal forms with a lichenous growth which often gives a greenish tinge to their gray hair. — 1933 formsmore lichenous · most lichenous