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crucigerous

crucigerous adjective: bearing a cross; marked with the figure of a cross.

Adjective

crucigerous (not comparable)

  1. Bearing a cross; marked with the figure of a cross.
    • But not to look so high as Heaven or the single Quincunx of the Hyades upon the head of Taurus, the Triangle, and remarkable Crusero about the foot of the Centaur; observable rudiments there are hereof in subterraneous concretions, and bodies in the Earth; in the Gypsum or Talcum Rhomboides, in the...1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus

Origin of crucigerous

From Latin crux, crucis (“cross”) + -gerous.

Words that rhyme with crucigerous

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Questions about crucigerous

What does crucigerous mean?
Crucigerous means bearing a cross; marked with the figure of a cross.
What part of speech is crucigerous?
Crucigerous is an adjective.

Words near crucigerous in the dictionary

  1. cruciforms
  2. crucify
  3. crucifying
  4. cruciger
  5. crucigeran
  6. crucigerous
  7. cruciverbal
  8. cruciverbalism
  9. cruciverbalist
  10. cruciverbalistic
  11. cruciverbalists

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