[f. LICHEN sb. + -(O)LOGIST.] One versed in lichenology.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 332. The arrangement … of Acharius has been adopted by lichenologists of this country and of most others.

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1874.  Cooke, Fungi, 11. No lichenologist of repute has as yet accepted the theory.

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