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crined

/kɹaɪnd/

crined adjective: having hair or a mane of a specified tincture, different from that of the body.

crined: having hair or a mane of a specified tincture, different from that of the body
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Adjective

crined (not comparable)

  1. Having hair or a mane of a specified tincture, different from that of the body.
    • Sa. three boys' heads couped at the shoulders ppr. having snakes enwrapped about their necks vert ; (sometimes borne with a chev. ar.) Crest - A boy's head as in the arms, (sometimes crined or.) VAUGHAN1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland: Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time...
    • a crested bird called in Zemblan sampel (‘silktail’), closely resembling a waxwing in shape and shade, is the model of one of the three heraldic creatures (the other two being a reindeer proper and a merman azure, crined or) in the armorial bearings of the Zemblan King, Charles the Beloved1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

crined meaning in Bengali

crined in Bengali

শরীরের রঙ থেকে ভিন্ন

Origin of crined

From Old French crine (“hair of the head”) (French crin) + -ed.

Words that rhyme with crined

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Questions about crined

What does crined mean?
Crined means having hair or a mane of a specified tincture, different from that of the body.
What is crined in Bengali?
Crined in Bengali is শরীরের রঙ থেকে ভিন্ন. See Crined meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is crined?
Crined is an adjective.
How do you pronounce crined?
Crined is pronounced /kɹaɪnd/ (UK).

Words near crined in the dictionary

  1. crincum-crancum
  2. crincum-crancums
  3. Crindau
  4. crine
  5. crinecerfont
  6. crined
  7. crinel
  8. crinels
  9. Criner
  10. Criners
  11. crinet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crined (page history and authors); crined (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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