‖ cryophorus
(kraɪˈɒfərəs)
[mod.L. in form, f. Gr. κρύο-ς frost + -ϕορος -bearing, -bearer.]
An instrument for illustrating the freezing of water by evaporation; that invented by Wollaston consists of a glass tube with a bulb at each end.
| 1826 Henry Epit. Chem. I. 134 The instrument invented by Dr. Wollaston, and termed by him the Cryophorus or Frost-bearer. 1863 Tyndall Heat v. §187 (1870) 151. |
Hence cryoˈphoric a., having the nature or function of a cryophorus.
| 1881 Herschel in Nature XXIII. 384 The cryophoric apparatus needed. |