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crustose
[ kruhs-tohs ]
/ ˈkrʌs toʊs /
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adjective Botany, Mycology.
forming a crusty, tenaciously fixed mass that covers the surface on which it grows, as certain lichens.
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Words nearby crustose
crustacean, crustaceous, crustal, crustal plate, crusted, crustose, crusty, crut, crutch, Crutched Friar, crutchings
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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 appearancecrustose lichens
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