Definitions for crustose

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crustose crus·tose

Spelling: [kruhs-tohs]

IPA: /ˈkrʌs toʊs/

Crustose is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 366 anagrams from letters in crustose (ceorsstu).

Definitions for crustose

adjective

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

Origin of crustose

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

Examples for crustose

On shaded sandstone, intermingled with an ash-gray, crustose thallus, which appeared like a sterile Pertusaria.