crustaceous

• Lesions and crustaceous afflictions spot his body in an ugly disfiguring diffusion and cadaverous eyes peer from deep within their sunken sockets with a diminished and dying light.
• On the other hand he's got those crustaceous blond dreads that make my scalp itch in empathy. by M.J. Fine
• The metal used does give it a crustaceous appearance. —  PR News:
• The fourth glume is coriaceous or crustaceous, plano-convex, bisexual, 5-nerved and paleate; palea is as long as the glume. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• This bread is often rendered more savoury by mixing the meal with dried "prairie crickets," a species of coleopterous insects--that is, insects with a crustaceous or shell-like covering over their wings--which are common in the desert wilds where these Indians dwell. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North

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