encrusting's Usage Examples:

thin, smooth encrusting patches, up to 5 cm across, with regularly spaced oscula.

It is encrusting, flat, and unbranched; it has tetrasporangia and bisporangia borne in multiporate conceptacles.

They are variable in size and form but most are massive, laminar or ramose as well as branching and encrusting.

A few examples of sclerobionts include Entobia borings, Gastrochaenolites borings, Talpina borings, serpulids, encrusting oysters, encrusting foraminiferans.

Many are typically encrusting and rock-like, found in marine waters all over the world.

This is a globular sponge up to 4 cm across or an encrusting sponge up to 7 cm across.

Capitan Reef was built primarily from calcareous sponges, encrusting algae such as stromatolites, and directly from seawater as a limey mud.

by the common names stick polyp, tree stick polyp, tree anemone, and encrusting stick anemone.

Erythropodium caribaeorum, commonly known as the encrusting gorgonian or encrusting polyps, is a species of soft coral in the family Anthothelidae.

bryozoan and is often abundantly found encrusting seaweeds, particularly kelps.

portal The order Microconchida is a group of small, spirally-coiled, encrusting fossil "worm" tubes from the class Tentaculita found from the Upper Ordovician.

the outer circumference of subcircular encrusting colonies, or at the tips of the branches in ramifying encrusting and bushy erect colonies.

having separate polyps budding off an encrusting horizontal, branching stolon.

Synonyms:

surface, coat, incrust,

Antonyms:

improperness, impropriety, natural object, understate,