crinite

English

Etymology

Latin crinitus.

Adjective

crinite (comparative more crinite, superlative most crinite)

1. Having the appearance of a tuft of hair.
2. Having a hair-like tail or train.
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     Comate, crinite, caudate stars.

3. (botany) Bearded or tufted with hairs.

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Noun

crinite (plural crinites)

1. (zoology) A fossil crinoid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crinite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• citiner, citrine, inciter, neritic, retinic, tricine

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) crīnīte

1. vocative masculine singular of crīnītus