单词 | crustose |
释义 | crustoseadj. Of the nature of a crust; crustaceous; esp. designating a lichen having a thin, closely adhering thallus (now more common than crustaceous in this sense). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [adjective] > of or characterized by parts angiocarpous1835 tartareous1839 nucleiform1840 gonidial1845 variolarioid1845 hypothalline1855 gonidic1856 gymnocarpous1856 isidioid1856 gonimic layer1857 nucleiferous1857 glebulose1866 heteromerous1875 homoeomerous1875 crustose1879 scyphose1879 apothecial1882 soredial1882 placodioid1911 isidial1921 isidiate1959 1879 W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora (ed. 3) 509 Crustose, forming a crust. 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Crustose, thick-skinned. Applied to certain mushrooms which form laminæ like crusts. 1938 G. M. Smith Cryptogamic Bot. I. xv. 515 These lichens are always crustose and with the thallus forming an incrustation that adheres closely to the substratum. 1959 New Scientist 5 Feb. 294/1 In a crustose lichen there is an upper cortex and a rather poorly defined gonidial layer of algal cells. 1967 M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens i. 10 Lichens are traditionally classified into three growth forms: crustose, foliose and fruticose. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1879 |
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