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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



... be only making houses to our own shape, instead of big enough to move about in—turning crustaceous animals, ...
— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald
... in fresh-water deposits are the shells of Cypris, a minute bivalve crustaceous animal. (For figures of fossil species of Purbeck see below, Chapter 19.) Many minute living species of this genus swarm in lakes and stagnant pools in Great Britain; but their shells are not, if considered separately, conclusive as to the fresh-water origin of a ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell


Words linked to "Crustaceous" :   Crustacea, crust


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