crustose
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toʊs adjective Botany, Mycology.
forming a crusty, tenaciously fixed mass that covers the surface on which it grows, as certain lichens.
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| —adj | |
| biology having a crustlike appearance: crustose lichens | |
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Example sentences
Yet, he maintained that plant life begins with crustose lichens on igneous rocks.
Crustose lichens form crusts that are so tightly attached to the rock that they can't be moved without damaging the substrate.
Much of the rock had a crustose coralline algae cover.
Another possible sampling regime includes the use of transects as for crustose lichens on rocks.
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