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crustaceous

/kɹʌsˈteɪʃəs/

crustaceous adjective: resembling a crustacean.

Adjective

crustaceous (comparative more crustaceous, superlative most crustaceous)

  1. Resembling a crustacean.
    • the crustaceous or ostreaceous body1678, 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: […]...
  2. Hard, thin and brittle.
    • a crustaceous lichen

Forms of crustaceous

comparativemore crustaceous
superlativemost crustaceous

Words formed from crustaceous

Questions about crustaceous

What does crustaceous mean?
Crustaceous means resembling a crustacean.
What part of speech is crustaceous?
Crustaceous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce crustaceous?
Crustaceous is pronounced /kɹʌsˈteɪʃəs/.

Words near crustaceous in the dictionary

  1. crustaceological
  2. crustaceologist
  3. crustaceologists
  4. crustaceology
  5. crustaceorubin
  6. crustaceous
  7. crustaceously
  8. crustaceousness
  9. crustache
  10. crustaches
  11. crustacivore

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