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▪ 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.
1600Fairfax Tasso xiv. xliv, How comate, crinite, caudate starres are fram'd I knew. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. 248 The Cane, like to a blazing Starre Crinite, Greater appear'd. 1852Dana 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. |