All English words - page 1269

Meanings of Cryptostomata:

noun

A small circular depression containing finely septate hairs found on the surface of some seaweeds, especially those of the order fucales.

Meanings of Cryptostomate:

noun

A small circular depression containing finely septate hairs found on the surface of some seaweeds, especially those of the order fucales.

Meanings of Cryptous:

adjective

Of, relating to, or of the nature of a crypt of the body; containing crypts.

Meanings of Cryptovolcanic:

adjective

Of a phenomenon or structure (especially a crater): apparently volcanic but occurring or formed in the absence of evident volcanic activity.

Meanings of Cryptoxanthin:

noun

A yellow carotenoid pigment which is a metabolic precursor of vitamin a and is commonly found in plants and in other sources such as egg yolk.

Meanings of Cryptozoic:

adjective

(of small invertebrates) living on the ground but hidden in the leaf litter under stones or pieces of wood.

Usage examples:

Scorpions are shy or cryptozoic

Meanings of Cryptozygous:

adjective

Designating a skull whose zygomatic arches cannot be seen when it is viewed from above; (also) designating the zygomatic arches of this type of skull; opposed to phenozygous.

Meanings of Crypts:

noun

An underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place.

Usage examples:

Thirteen additional art works were packed into the central aisle, adjacent chapels and underground …

Meanings of Crystal:

noun

A piece of a homogeneous solid substance having a natural geometrically regular form with symmetrically arranged plane faces.

Usage examples:

A quartz crystal

adjective

Short for crystal meth (methamphetamine).

Meanings of Crystal-clear:

adjective

Very clear or very obvious

Usage examples:

The townspeople have made it crystal clear that they don’t want the new highway built.

Meanings of Crystalled:

adjective

Covered or decorated with crystal or crystals.

Meanings of Crystallic:

adjective

Of or relating to crystal or crystals; crystalline.

Meanings of Crystalliform:

adjective

Having a crystalline form.

Meanings of Crystalligerous:

adjective

Of a spore or cell: containing a crystal or crystals.

Meanings of Crystallin:

noun

A protein of the globulin class present in the lens of the eye.

Usage examples:

We therefore present here a novel eye lens crystallin, crystallin, found in platypus.

Meanings of Crystalline:

adjective

Having the structure and form of a crystal; composed of crystals.

Usage examples:

A crystalline rock

Meanings of Crystallisation:

noun

The process of forming crystals.

Usage examples:

Sometimes these substances are present in such high concentration that crystallization occurs

Meanings of Crystallise:

verb

Form or cause to form crystals.

Usage examples:

When most liquids freeze they crystallize

Meanings of Crystallised:

verb

Form or cause to form crystals.

Usage examples:

When most liquids freeze they crystallize

adjective

Formed into crystals; having a crystalline form.

Usage examples:

Crystallized sugar

Meanings of Crystallising:

verb

Form or cause to form crystals.

Usage examples:

When most liquids freeze they crystallize

Meanings of Crystallite:

noun

An individual perfect crystal or region of regular crystalline structure in the substance of a material, typically of a metal or a partly crystalline polymer.

Usage examples:

Iron oxide is not a common catalyst support for other precious metals and the optimum crystallite s…

Meanings of Crystallites:

noun

An individual perfect crystal or region of regular crystalline structure in the substance of a material, typically of a metal or a partly crystalline polymer.

Usage examples:

Iron oxide is not a common catalyst support for other precious metals and the optimum crystallite s…

Meanings of Crystallitic:

adjective

Of the nature of a crystallite; consisting of or containing crystallites.

Meanings of Crystallization:

noun

The process of forming crystals.

Usage examples:

Sometimes these substances are present in such high concentration that crystallization occurs

Meanings of Crystallize:

verb

Form or cause to form crystals.

Usage examples:

When most liquids freeze they crystallize