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crinose

crinose adjective: hairy.

Adjective

crinose (comparative more crinose, superlative most crinose)

  1. (rare) Hairy.
    • And when she emerges with the "killing" coiffure complete in every twist, and puff, and curl, what is left for man but to yield himself abjectly to admiration of the crinose superstructure, built after the manner of the hairy architecture employed by the ladies of equatorial Africa?1876, Victoria Magazine, volume 27, page 258
    • Monna Marcella hastened to the scene of these reckless proceedings — not the crinose feats, but the tricks; not paradise, but the stony back-yard.1879, Mary Cowden Clarke, The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales

Forms of crinose

comparativemore crinose
superlativemost crinose

Origin of crinose

From Latin crinis (“hair”).

Questions about crinose

What does crinose mean?
Crinose means hairy.
What part of speech is crinose?
Crinose is an adjective.

Words near crinose in the dictionary

  1. crinoline
  2. crinolined
  3. crinolines
  4. crinophagic
  5. crinophagy
  6. crinose
  7. crinosities
  8. crinosity
  9. crinosterol
  10. crinozoan
  11. crins

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