crustaceous

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹʌsˈteɪʃəs/

Adjective

crustaceous (comparative more crustaceous, superlative most crustaceous)

  1. Resembling a crustacean.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
      the crustaceous or ostreaceous body
  2. Hard, thin and brittle.
    a crustaceous lichen

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