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What is the plural of lichen?

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The noun lichen can be countable or uncountable.

In more general, commonly used, contexts, the plural form will be lichens.

However, in more specific contexts, the plural form can also be lichen e.g. in reference to various types of lichen or a collection of lichen.

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We have beautiful new note cards depicting fetid adder's tongues, woodland wildflowers, northwest conifers, and Mill Valley lichens.
Just prior to mating, the female constructs a tiny cup nest of moss, lichens, and the silk of spiders' webs.
The blocks of limestone in the forest's ravine are covered with lush growths of mosses, lichens, liverworts and walking ferns.
In 1980, an old ash tree in Cumbria on which this lichen grew, had to be felled for safety reasons.
Because of their sedentary character and free grazing habit, reindeer tend to trample and overgraze lichen pastures during summer and autumn.
On our moss-covered trails, mats of shrubby gray reindeer lichen and Iceland lichen are common.

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