Definition of crypt

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Crypt (n.) 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..

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Tataupa :: Tataupa (n.) A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).
Prase :: Prase (n.) A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.
Cryptogamian :: Cryptogamian (a.) Alt. of Cryptogamou.
Cryptogram :: Cryptogram (n.) A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.
Sporophoric :: Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore..
Foussa :: Foussa (n.) A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws..
Lieberkuhn''s Glands :: Lieberkuhn's glands () The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkuhn.
Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe..
Cryptography :: Cryptography (n.) The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher..
Selaginella :: Selaginella (n.) A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories..
Cryptographal :: Cryptographal (a.) Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical.
Pillwort :: Pillwort (n.) Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass..
Holocryptic :: Holocryptic (a.) Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.
Doublet :: Doublet (a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc..
Follicle :: Follicle (n.) A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
Lycopodiaceous :: Lycopodiaceous (a.) Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceae, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves..
Hepatica :: Hepatica (n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement..
Agamous :: Agamous (a.) cryptogamous.
Cryptogamiae :: Cryptogamiae (pl. ) of Cryptogami.
Cryptogamic :: Cryptogamic (a.) Alt. of Cryptogamou.
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