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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



... selection might cause a form to become more simple, as well as more complicated; thus the adaptation of a crustaceous{478} animal to live attached during its whole life to the body of a fish, might permit with advantage great simplification of structure, and on this view the singular fact of an embryo being more complex than its parent ...
— The Foundations of the Origin of Species - Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 • Charles Darwin
... hairy to the crustaceous, the real coat, the coat turned out by a special industry, does not exist. Hair, fur, feather, scale, shell, stony armour require no intervention of the wearer; they are natural products, not the artificial creations of ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre


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