Meaning

1 senses

  1. An icicle-shaped rust formation, formed on shipwrecks etc. by underwater microbes that consume iron.

Origin

Blend of rust + icicle, coined by Robert Ballard, who first observed them on the wreck of

Blend of rust + icicle, coined by Robert Ballard, who first observed them on the wreck of the Titanic in 1986.

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Forms

plural: rusticles
Singularrusticle
Pluralrusticles

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rustrusticrustleC1rustlingrustyB2
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