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  • English Word Cryophorus Definition An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32¡ Fahr.
  • English Word Crypt Definition A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
  • English Word Crypt Definition A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
  • English Word Cryptal Definition Of or pertaining to crypts.
  • English Word Cryptic Definition Alt. of Cryptical
  • English Word Cryptical Definition Hidden; secret; occult.
  • English Word Cryptically Definition Secretly; occultly.
  • English Word Cryptidine Definition One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.
  • English Word Cryptobranchiata Definition A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.
  • English Word Cryptobranchiata Definition A group of nudibranch mollusks.
  • English Word Cryptobranchiate Definition Having concealed or rudimentary gills.
  • English Word Cryptocrystalline Definition Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.
  • English Word Cryptogam Definition A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.
  • English Word Cryptogamia Definition The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.
  • English Word Cryptogamiae Definition of Cryptogamia
  • English Word Cryptogamian Definition Alt. of Cryptogamous
  • English Word Cryptogamic Definition Alt. of Cryptogamous
  • English Word Cryptogamist Definition One skilled in cryptogamic botany.
  • English Word Cryptogamous Definition Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.
  • English Word Cryptogram Definition A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.
  • English Word Cryptograph Definition Cipher; something written in cipher.
  • English Word Cryptographal Definition Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical.
  • English Word Cryptographer Definition One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.
  • English Word Cryptographic Definition Alt. of Cryptographical
  • English Word Cryptographical Definition Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.
  • English Word Cryptographist Definition Same as Cryptographer.
  • English Word Cryptography Definition The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.
  • English Word Cryptology Definition Secret or enigmatical language.
  • English Word Cryptonym Definition A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.
  • English Word Cryptopine Definition A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.