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Crustaceous   Listen
adjective
Crustaceous  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.
2.
(Zool.) Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.





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"Crustaceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... long flat bay of Dunnet, and cross its waste of sands. The incoherent coils of the sand-worm lie thick on the surface; and here a swarm of buzzing flies, disturbed by the foot, rises in a cloud from some tuft of tangled sea-weed; and here myriads of gray crustaceous sand-hoppers dart sidelong in the little pools, or vault from the drier ridges a few inches into the air. Were the trilobites of the Silurian system,—at one period, as their remains testify, more than equally abundant,—creatures of similar habits? We ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... membranous, 3- to 5-nerved. The second glume is equal to or shorter than the fourth, 5- to 7-nerved. The third glume more or less exceeding and resembling the second glume, neuter, rarely paleate and male. The fourth glume is coriaceous or crustaceous, plano-convex, bisexual, 5-nerved and paleate; palea is as long as the glume. Lodicules are broadly cuneate. Stamens are three. Stigmas are laterally exserted. Grain is tightly enclosed by the hardened glume and its palea and is oblong ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar


Words linked to "Crustaceous" :   crust, crustacean, Crustacea


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