crustose
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin crustōsus (“with a hard crust”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
crustose (not comparable)
- (lichenology) Of a lichen, growing tightly appressed to the substrate.
- 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 84:
- Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens creep and seep; foliose lichens layer and flake.