encrust
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McCrady’s, Langhorne recalls, might prepare a local fish but encrust it with lichens that he foraged.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023
Guests complain about their servants, encrust their manicures and teeth with diamonds and feed each other gold-flaked chocolate truffles.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2022
The nodules form on deep abyssal plains where sedimentation rates are low, allowing metal compounds dissolved in seawater to encrust a nucleus, like a shark tooth or a rock, over millions of years.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 14, 2019
With time, corals, sponges and other marine life encrust the concrete, and it becomes indistinguishable from the natural reefs.
From Slate • Aug. 5, 2016
The furry coating of sea mosses that encrust the rocks is a hiding-place for many kinds of living things, some soft-bodied, some protected by shells.
From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen
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