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

Derived terms

• crustaceousness
• ecrustaceous
• noncrustaceous
• pustulocrustaceous
• semicrustaceous
• subcrustaceous