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bioencrustations

bioencrustations is the plural of bioencrustation.

Meaning of bioencrustation

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...

Questions about bioencrustations

What is bioencrustations the plural of?
Bioencrustations is the plural of bioencrustation.

Words near bioencrustations in the dictionary

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

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