Etymology

crustose

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Today it means: Of a lichen, growing tightly appressed to the substrate. Full definition →

Latin crustōsus
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromcrustōsus“with a hard crust”
  2. English todaycrustose

Borrowed from Latin crustōsus (“with a hard crust”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.