Crossword-Solution: CRISTATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cristate | a. | Crested. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CRISTATE | anagram | CITRATES, SCATTIER |
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| Crested. | 4 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEMACZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CRISTATE (5)
CRISTATE, kris't[=a]t, _adj._ crested.--_n._ CRIS'TA, a crest.--_adjs._ CRIS'TIFORM; CRISTIM'ANOUS, having crested claws.
Archegonium with a slender persistent style, solitary on a usually very short branch; the perianth free from the involucral leaves, oval or oblong, terete or angular, variously carinate, cristate, or ciliate.
Widely creeping, mostly simple, usually purplish-black; leaves imbricate, or distant on the erect fertile stems, 2--3-lobed, the lobes obtuse, wavy; cells very large, lax; involucral leaves 2, wide, short, cristate-undulate, obtusely many-lobed; perianth exserted, long-clavate, sub-plicate above, minutely ciliate.
Gilbert was interested in the plant and asked permission to describe it in the _Fern Bulletin_ but illness and finally death prevented.” Apparently the only difference between the Vermont and Pennsylvania plants is the cristate apex, but as forking tips are to be expected in any species this feature is not extraordinary.
Although a cristate may apparently develop from an injury, there is every reason to believe that, once established, the tendency to cristate becomes a genetic character.