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CRYPT
crypt
(noun) a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
crypt (plural crypts)
(now, rare) A cave or cavern. [from 15th c.]
An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. [from 16th c.]
(anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure. [from 19th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Crypt (krpt), n. Etym: [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. Crot, Crotto.]
1. A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory. Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.
2. (Anat.)
Definition: A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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