cristate

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.

Derived terms

• bicristate

 

Related terms

• crest

Translations

having a crest

• French: crêté (fr), cristé (fr)
• Italian: crestato (it)
• Macedonian: гри́вест (grívest)
• Spanish: crestado (es)

Anagrams

• cartiest, citrates, scattier

Latin

Adjective

cristāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cristātus