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cristae

Syllables: cris·tae/ˈkɹɪsti/

cristae 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)

Forms of cristae

alternative formcristæ

Questions about cristae

What is cristae the plural of?
Cristae is the plural of crista.
How do you pronounce cristae?
Cristae is pronounced /ˈkɹɪsti/.

Words near cristae in the dictionary

  1. Crist
  2. crista
  3. crista ampullaris
  4. crista cutis
  5. cristacarpin
  6. cristae
  7. cristal
  8. Cristales
  9. Cristaleses
  10. cristall
  11. cristalls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cristae (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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