Definition of crypt

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Crypt (n.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines..

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Cryptology :: Cryptology (n.) Secret or enigmatical language.
Moss :: Moss (n.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water..
Cryptonym :: Cryptonym (n.) A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.
Cryptic :: Cryptic (a.) Alt. of Cryptica.
Alga :: Alga (n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc..
Receptacle :: Receptacle (n.) A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
Cryptographical :: Cryptographical (a.) Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink..
Vascular :: Vascular (a.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only..
Cryptopine :: Cryptopine (n.) A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.
Cryptogamiae :: Cryptogamiae (pl. ) of Cryptogami.
Sublapsarian :: Subkingdom (n.) One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoology, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia..
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..
Undercroft :: Undercroft (n.) A subterranean room of any kind; esp., one under a church (see Crypt), or one used as a chapel or for any sacred purpose..
Quillwort :: Quillwort (n.) Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the 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..
Cryptogamic :: Cryptogamic (a.) Alt. of Cryptogamou.
Crypt :: 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..
Fern :: Fern (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size..
Cryptogam :: Cryptogam (n.) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.
Tataupa :: Tataupa (n.) A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).
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