cristate

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cristatus.

Adjective

cristate (comparative more cristate, superlative most cristate)

  1. Having a crest; crested.
    • 1924, William Williams Henderson, A Taxonomic and Ecological Study of the Species of the Subfamily Oedipodinae (Orthoptera-Acrididae) Found in Utah, page 53:
      Median carina strongly cristate on the prozone and on the metazone and with one deep transverse incision so that the prozone is only about one-third the length of the metazone, the incision inclined anterio-ventrad.

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Latin

Adjective

cristāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of cristātus