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cryptexes

cryptexes is the plural of cryptex.

Meaning of cryptex

Noun

cryptex (plural cryptices or cryptexes)

  1. A puzzle box solved with a passcode.
    • Sophie was not surprised. Most of Leonardo’s unbuilt inventions had never been studied or even named. The term cryptex possibly had been her grandfather’s creation, an apt title for this device that used the science of cryptology to protect information written on the contained scroll or codex.[2003, Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 199

Questions about cryptexes

What is cryptexes the plural of?
Cryptexes is the plural of cryptex.

Words near cryptexes in the dictionary

  1. crypterati
  2. crypteroniaceous
  3. cryptesthesia
  4. cryptesthetic
  5. cryptex
  6. cryptexes
  7. cryptic
  8. cryptic crossword
  9. cryptic crosswords
  10. cryptic definition
  11. cryptic definitions

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