cribriform

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
22
Letters
10

Definition of cribriform

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Perforated, as in the manner of a sieve.
    “the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress”
    “"To conclude this portion of our investigation therefore," cried Barbican, clearing his throat, and occupying Aldan's right ear,—"the Moon's surface is a honey combed, perforated, punctured—" "A fistulous, a rugose, salebrous,—" cut in the Captain, close on the left. —"And highly cribriform superficies—" cried Barbican. —"A sieve, a riddle, a colander—" shouted the Captain.”

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Etymology

From Latin cribrum (“sieve”) + -form.

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