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calamistrated

calamistrated adjective: curled or frizzed.

Adjective

calamistrated (not comparable)

  1. curled or frizzed
    • Webs of calamistrated silk are common in every house and shed in England, where spiders of the genus Ciniflo spin them in cellars, in the corners of windows, in crevices of gateposts and so on.1952, Theodore Horace Savory, The Spider's Web

Origin of calamistrated

Latin calamistratus (“curled with a curling iron”), from calamistrum (“curling iron”).

Questions about calamistrated

What does calamistrated mean?
Calamistrated means curled or frizzed.
What part of speech is calamistrated?
Calamistrated is an adjective.

Words near calamistrated in the dictionary

  1. calamining
  2. calamint
  3. calamints
  4. calamistra
  5. calamistrate
  6. calamistrated
  7. calamistrum
  8. calamitaceous
  9. calamite
  10. Calamitean
  11. calamites

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