Word.ws English Dictionary

crestal

crestal adjective: that is situated on, or forms part of, a crest.

Adjective

crestal (not comparable)

  1. That is situated on, or forms part of, a crest.
    • Microbial samples and peri-implant crestal bone levels of all implant sites were obtained before, during and after the breakdown period.2015 October 22, “Evaluation in a Dog Model of Three Antimicrobial Glassy Coatings: Prevention of Bone Loss around Implants and Microbial Assessments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Noun

crestal (plural crestals)

  1. A scale located on the crest.
    • In the arrangement of the crestals Shinisaurus closely resembles Xenosaurus (in which genus, however, the crestals are blunt and resemble ornamental tack heads) […]1955, Joel Asaph Allen, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, page 15

Forms of crestal

pluralcrestals

Origin of crestal

From crest + -al.

Words formed from crestal

Questions about crestal

What does crestal mean?
Crestal means that is situated on, or forms part of, a crest.
What part of speech is crestal?
Crestal can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near crestal in the dictionary

  1. CREST syndrome
  2. crest tile
  3. crest tiles
  4. crest-tailed mulgara
  5. crest-tailed mulgaras
  6. crestal
  7. crestals
  8. crested
  9. crested auklet
  10. crested auklets
  11. crested bellbird

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crestal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “crestal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/crestal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.