▪ I. crinite, a.
(ˈkraɪnaɪt)
[ad. L. crīnīt-us hairy, f. crīnis hair.]
Hairy; having a hairy or hairlike appendage; spec. in Bot. and Zool. having tufts of hairy growth on the surface.
| 1600 Fairfax Tasso xiv. xliv, How comate, crinite, caudate starres are fram'd I knew. 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. 248 The Cane, like to a blazing Starre Crinite, Greater appear'd. 1852 Dana Crust. i. 436 Flagellum of outer antennæ more or less crinite, often long ciliate. |
▪ II. crinite, n. Geol.
(ˈkrɪnaɪt, kraɪ-)
[f. Gr. κρίνον lily + -ite.]
A fossil crinoid; an encrinite.