crustose thallus

1. 1.

   thin crusty lichen thallus; adheres closely to or is embedded in the surface on which it grows

   Broaderthallus

Questions about crustose thallus

What does crustose thallus mean?

crustose thallus means "thin crusty lichen thallus; adheres closely to or is embedded in the surface on which it grows".

Is crustose thallus a common word?

crustose thallus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.