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biocrust

noun

Etymology

From bio- + crust.

  1. derived from *krustós✻
  2. derived from crusta
  3. derived from cruste
  4. inherited from cruste
  5. prefixed as biocrust — “bio + crust”

Definitions

  1. Biological soil crust.

    • Chlorophyll a and exopolysaccharide were used as indicators of the photoautotrophic activity of the biocrust organisms (moss or cyanobacteria) and conditions for moss-dominated crusts development.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for biocrust. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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