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Definition of Crustaceous
1. Adjective. Of or belonging to the class Crustacea.
2. Adjective. Being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell.
Definition of Crustaceous
1. a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.
Definition of Crustaceous
1. Adjective. Resembling a crustacean. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crustaceous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Crustaceous
1. Brittle, of marine algae, encrusted with calcium carbonate. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crustaceous
Literary usage of Crustaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Ovary and capsule with 2 to 5 parietal placentae, or 2 - 5-celled by their union
in the axis. Seeds anatropous, with a somewhat crustaceous coat, ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1842)
"tr Henry Goodsir on some New crustaceous Animals, Sfc. scored surfaces, ...
Descriptions of some Nero crustaceous Animals found in the Firth of Forth. ..."
3. A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, John Wright (1831)
"These are divided by naturalists into crustaceous and Testaceous animals: ...
crustaceous fish, such as the crab and the lobster, have a shell not quite of ..."
4. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1887)
"... -crustaceous form, whilst the resemblance to an oyster shell in formation is
present, the crust is always considerably flattened. ..."
5. The Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, Successively Bishop of by Richard Pococke, James Joel Cartwright (1889)
"I do not imagine that the former were so much of the crustaceous kind as those
of Dudley. They cover their houses here with a thin stone, which they bring ..."
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