crypt

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cave or cavern. archaic
  2. An underground vault.
  3. An underground vault.; Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.
    — Near-synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher
  4. A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
    — Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa
  5. Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
  6. Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.

词形变化

crypts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cryptal cryptid cryptitis cryptlike crypt of Lieberkühn hemicrypt intestinal crypt
相关词
encrypt

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.
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