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.
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg or SchÃ¶nberg (German: [ËaËÊnÉlt ËÊÃ¸ËnbÉÊk]; 13 September 1874 â 13 July 1951) was an Austrian composer, music theorist, and painter. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School.