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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Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe..
Musci :: Musci (n. pl.) An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia..
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..
Cryptically :: Cryptically (adv.) Secretly; occultly.
Shroud :: Shroud (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt..
Cryptogamiae :: Cryptogamiae (pl. ) of Cryptogami.
Cryptogamist :: Cryptogamist (n.) One skilled in cryptogamic botany.
Prase :: Prase (n.) A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.
Oogonium :: Oogonium (n.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae..
Cryptonym :: Cryptonym (n.) A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.
Bryophyta :: Bryophyta (n. pl.) See Cryptogamia.
Porphyritic :: Porphyritic (a.) Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline..
Wrymouth :: Wrymouth (n.) Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish..
Cryptology :: Cryptology (n.) Secret or enigmatical language.
Cryptical :: Cryptical (a.) Hidden; secret; occult.
Antherozooid :: Antherozooid (n.) One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.
Foussa :: Foussa (n.) A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws..
Equisetum :: Equisetum (n.) A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails..
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..
Tataupa :: Tataupa (n.) A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).
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