单词 | crypt |
释义 | crypt/krɪpt /noun 1An underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place.Thirteen additional art works were packed into the central aisle, adjacent chapels and underground crypts of the church....
Synonyms tomb, vault, mausoleum, burial chamber, sepulchre, catacomb, ossuary, undercroft; cellar, basement; Archaeology mastaba 2 Anatomy A small tubular gland, pit, or recess.The epithelium, often with villi, crypts, and glands, simulates the normal mucosa of the gut....
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'cavern'): from Latin crypta, from Greek kruptē 'a vault', from kruptos 'hidden'.
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