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单词 crustose
释义

crustose

[ kruhs-tohs ]
/ ˈkrʌs toʊs /

adjective Botany, Mycology.

forming a crusty, tenaciously fixed mass that covers the surface on which it grows, as certain lichens.
Compare foliose, fruticose.

Origin of crustose

1875–80; <Latin crustōsus covered with a crust, equivalent to crust(a) crust + -ōsus-ose1

Words nearby crustose

crustacean, crustaceous, crustal, crustal plate, crusted, crustose, crusty, crut, crutch, Crutched Friar, crutchings
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Example sentences from the Web for crustose

  • 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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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