crinose

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 9
Words With Friends: 11
Letters: 7

Definition of crinose

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

(rare)Hairy.

“And when she emerges with the "killing" coiffure complete in every twist, and puff, and curl, what is left for man but to yield himself abjectly to admiration of the crinose superstructure, built after the manner of the hairy architecture employed by the ladies of equatorial Africa?”
“Monna Marcella hastened to the scene of these reckless proceedings — not the crinose feats, but the tricks; not paradise, but the stony back-yard.”
“Valvae long, quadriform to oval, distally pointed, sclerotized and crinose […]”
“I was going to say unobservant too, but those deep- sunk eyes of his looked out from under his bushy brows at times, and sparkled in a way that, taken with a slight quivering of the lips under his moustache, betrayed some change of expression disguised by that crinose mask, which suggested a doubt on the subject.”

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Etymology

From Latin crinis (“hair”).

Anagrams of crinose

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