crypt
Meanings
Plural: crypts
Noun
- a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
- A cave or cavern.
- An underground vault.
- An underground vault.
- Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.
- A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
- Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
- Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.
Scrabble Score: 12
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Words With Friends Score: 13
crypt is a valid Words With Friends word