The noun LICHEN has 2 senses: 1. any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks. 2. any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.Familiarity information: LICHEN used as a noun is rare.ypernyms (lichen is a kind of...): fungus (a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores). Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of lichen): beard lichen; beard moss; Usnea barbata (greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees).
Date of Birth: October 28, 1944. Ethnicity: German, possibly some Polish. Dennis Franz is an American actor. He starred on the television series NYPD Blue. His father, Franz Ferdinand Schlachta, was German, born in Wattenshield. His mother, Elenore/Eleanor (Mueller), was born in Illinois, of German descent.
Franz Kline was born in Wilkes-Barre, a small coal-mining community in Eastern Pennsylvania. When he was seven years old, Kline's father committed suicide. His mother later remarried and sent him to Girard College, an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys.