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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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..
Follicle :: Follicle (n.) A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
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..
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..
Spore :: Sporangium (n.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc..
Crypt :: 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..
Steganography :: Steganographist (n.) One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.
Cryptographical :: Cryptographical (a.) Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink..
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..
Tataupa :: Tataupa (n.) A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).
Cryptology :: Cryptology (n.) Secret or enigmatical language.
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..
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..
Grotesque :: Grotesque (n.) A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes..
Cryptogamous :: Cryptogamous (a.) Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series..
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..
Cryptogamic :: Cryptogamic (a.) Alt. of Cryptogamou.
Holocryptic :: Holocryptic (a.) Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.
Cryptical :: Cryptical (a.) Hidden; secret; occult.
Cryptocrystalline :: Cryptocrystalline (a.) Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope..
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