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cristæ

cristæ is the plural of crista.

Meaning of crista

Noun

crista (plural cristae or (obsolete) cristæ)

  1. Any of the internal compartments formed by the inner membrane of a mitochondrion, where many chemical reactions take place.
  2. A dental crest.
  3. A crest or terminal shaft.
    • […] a crista of fine hairs, between the two reddish, rounded knobs or stigmas […]1805, Charles Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (joint ed.), Annals of Botany (volume 1, page 292)

Questions about cristæ

What is cristæ the plural of?
Cristæ is the plural of crista.

Words near cristæ in the dictionary

  1. cristospine
  2. cristospines
  3. Crists
  4. cristulid
  5. cristulids
  6. cristæ
  7. Crisul Alb
  8. Criswell
  9. Criswells
  10. crit
  11. crit care

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cristæ (page history and authors); crista (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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