Word.ws English Dictionary

cryptocephaline

cryptocephaline adjective: of or pertaining to the subfamily Cryptocephalinae or the tribe Cryptocephalini.

Adjective

cryptocephaline (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the subfamily Cryptocephalinae or the tribe Cryptocephalini.
    • I rarely get anything beating Sideroxylon lanuginosum (gum bumelia), but I beat most of the trees that I saw anyway and collected one cryptocephaline chrysomelid and two curculionoids.2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae

Origin of cryptocephaline

From ultimately translingual Cryptocephalus + -ine.

Questions about cryptocephaline

What does cryptocephaline mean?
Cryptocephaline means of or pertaining to the subfamily Cryptocephalinae or the tribe Cryptocephalini.
What part of speech is cryptocephaline?
Cryptocephaline is an adjective.

Words near cryptocephaline in the dictionary

  1. cryptocaryosis
  2. cryptoccocosis
  3. cryptocelid
  4. cryptocelids
  5. cryptocephal
  6. cryptocephaline
  7. cryptocercid
  8. cryptocercids
  9. cryptochetid
  10. cryptochidism
  11. cryptochiral

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cryptocephaline (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cryptocephaline.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cryptocephaline. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.