crustose
[ kruhs-tohs ]
adjectiveBotany, Mycology.
forming a crusty, tenaciously fixed mass that covers the surface on which it grows, as certain lichens.
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How to use crustose in a sentence
On shaded sandstone, intermingled with an ash-gray, crustose thallus, which appeared like a sterile Pertusaria.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 | Bruce Fink and Leafy J. Corrington
British Dictionary definitions for crustose
crustose
/ (ˈkrʌstəʊs) /
adjective
biology having a crustlike appearance: crustose lichens
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