encrusting

v.

用一层硬壳覆盖，包裹( encrust的现在分词 )；（用贵重物品在）表面装饰；结壳，形成硬壳；

1. Salt from the sea had encrusted on the dry sand.
   海水中的盐分在乾燥的沙子上结成硬皮。
2. Green weed and grey barnacles encrust every part under the sea.
   水下的部分则覆满了绿色的海藻和灰色的藤壶。

Competition within and between encrusting clonal invertebrates
Spatial Relationships among Encrusting Marine Organisms in the New England Subtidal Zone
GROWTH AND REGENERATION RATES IN THINLY ENCRUSTING DEMOSPONGIAE FROM TEMPERATE WATERS
COLONY FORM AND THE EXPLOITATION OF SPATIAL REFUGES BY ENCRUSTING BRYOZOA
Overgrowth Competition Between Encrusting Cheilostome Ectoprocts in a Jamaican Cryptic Reef Environment
The Role of Biological Disturbance in Temperate Subtidal Encrusting Communities
Major bulk dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal by encrusting coral reef cavity sponges
Effects of the encrusting bryozoan, Membranipora membranacea, on the loss of blades and fronds by the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrife...
Ecology of cryptic coral reef communities. I. Distribution and abundance of major groups of encrusting organisms
How do reproductive output, larval behaviour, and recruitment contribute to adult spatial patterns in Mediterranean encrusting spong...