crosta — meaning in English

English meaning

• crust noun The hard outer layer of something, especially bread or the Earth.
• scab noun A dry, hard crust that forms over a wound as it heals.

Senses

crosta is used for these senses in English:

• crust The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
• crust (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
• eschar (loose or obsolete) Any hard, dark, commonly flattened or sunken lesion or crust, especially on a burn, abscess, infection, wound; commonly a coagulation of blood or exudations, not necessarily involving dead or necrotic tissue.
• scab An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

crust — full definition

1. noun The hard outer layer of something, especially bread or the Earth.
2. verb To form or become covered with a hard outer layer.

scab — full definition

1. noun A dry, hard crust that forms over a wound as it heals.
2. noun An insulting term for a worker who continues working, or takes a striking worker's job, during a labour strike.
3. verb To act as a strikebreaker.

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