Definition of "lichened" [li•chened]

• Covered with lichen. (adjective)

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• "A rocky outcrop, lichened with peeling yellow and grey, jutted beside an overgrown hole, visible only from a certain angle."
• "It lands on one of the boulders at the top of the shore, where the orange/buff of the breast and the patterning on the wings and back render it inconspicuous almost to the point of invisibility against the mottled and lichened rock."
• "A stand of winter chestnuts round a set of farm buildings is 'very Badmin'; a row of swallows on a phone wire above a lichened tiled roof becomes a Tunnicliffe."