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bioencrustation

bioencrustation noun: encrustation with biological material.

Noun

bioencrustation (countable and uncountable, plural bioencrustations)

  1. encrustation with biological material
    • While there is no evidence of bioerosion, bioencrustation or an associated invertebrate fauna with the type specimen of Albicetus, it is not entirely clear whether such a community might be expected for a physeteroid whalefall, even at the presumed paleodepth for the type specimen's depositional...2015 December 10, “Albicetus oxymycterus, a New Generic Name and Redescription of a Basal Physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California, and the Evolution of Body Size in Sperm...

Forms of bioencrustation

pluralbioencrustations

Origin of bioencrustation

From bio- + encrustation.

Questions about bioencrustation

What does bioencrustation mean?
Bioencrustation means encrustation with biological material.
What part of speech is bioencrustation?
Bioencrustation is a noun.
What is the plural of bioencrustation?
The plural of bioencrustation is bioencrustations.

Words near bioencrustation in the dictionary

  1. bioeliminations
  2. bioemulsifier
  3. bioemulsifiers
  4. bioencapsulated
  5. bioencapsulation
  6. bioencrustation
  7. bioencrustations
  8. bioencrusted
  9. bioenergetic
  10. bioenergetical
  11. bioenergetically

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