Where does cristate come from?

First known use: First attested in 1661.

cristate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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."

First attested in 1661; borrowed from Latin cristātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

more cristate (comparative) most cristate (superlative)

bicristate

crest

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