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cribiform

cribiform is the misconstruction of cribriform.

Meaning of cribriform

Adjective

cribriform (comparative more cribriform, superlative most cribriform)

  1. Perforated, as in the manner of a sieve.
    • the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress
    Synonyms:
    cribrous

Questions about cribiform

What is cribiform the misconstruction of?
Cribiform is the misconstruction of cribriform.

Words near cribiform in the dictionary

  1. cribellar
  2. cribellate
  3. cribellum
  4. cribhouse
  5. cribhouses
  6. cribiform
  7. crible
  8. cribles
  9. cribless
  10. criblike
  11. cribmate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cribiform (page history and authors); cribriform (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.

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