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Blight vs Lichen - What's the difference?

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Blight is a related term of lichen.


As nouns the difference between blight and lichen

is that blight is any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts while lichen is any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of fungi and algae; often found as white or yellow patches on old walls, etc.

As a verb blight

is to affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

blight

English

Noun

(wikipedia blight)
  • any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts
  • the bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition
  • (by extension) anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life
  • Derived terms

    * alder blight * American blight * aphis-blight * apple blight * bean blight * beet blight * blight bird * blight canker * blight in the eye * blight-beetle * blighted * blighty * blister blight * cane blight * celery blight * chestnut blight * coffee blight * collar blight * early blight * fire blight, fireblight * frictional blight * functional blight * fusarium ear blight, fusarium head blight * green blight * halo blight * head blight * kernel blight * late blight * leaf blight * moth blight * needle blight * northern corn-leaf blight, northern leaf blight * oak blight * peach blight * pear blight * pine blight * planning blight * potato blight * rim blight * sandy blight * seedling blight * southern blight * Sphaeropsis blight * spinach blight * spur blight * stamen blight * stem blight * stripe blight * thread blight * tomato blight * twig blight * urban blight * walnut blight

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
  • * Woodward
  • [This vapour] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
  • To suffer blight.
  • This vine never blights .
  • to spoil or ruin (something)
  • Those obscene tattoos are going to blight your job prospects.
  • * Byron
  • seared in heart and lone and blighted

    Derived terms

    * blighter * blighting * blightingly

    References

    lichen

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of fungi and algae; often found as white or yellow patches on old walls, etc.
  • * 1894 — (Rudyard Kipling), , Lukannon
  • The Beaches of Lukannon–the winter wheat so tall–
    The dripping, crinkled lichens , and the sea-fog drenching all!
  • * 1895 — , , ch XI
  • It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight.
  • * 1915 — (John Muir), , ch V
  • The nibble marks of the stone adze were still visible, though crusted over with scale lichens in most places.
  • (figurative) Something which spreads across something else, causing damage.
  • *
  • Meanwhile, abiding a day of judgment, she fought ceaselessly to deny the bitter drops in her cup, to tear back the slow, the intangibly slow growth of a hot, corrosive lichen eating into her heart.

    Synonyms

    * (something which spreads) (l)

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    See also

    * (lichen) * algae * fungus * Iceland moss * moss * reindeer moss

    References

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