Definition of Cribrose

1. a. Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

Definition of Cribrose

1. Adjective. perforated like a sieve ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cribrose

1. cribrous [adj] - See also: cribrous

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cribrose

cribella
cribellum
crible
criblike
cribra
cribrate
cribration
cribrations
cribriform
cribriform area of the renal papilla
cribriform fascia
cribriform hymen
cribriform plate
cribriform plate of ethmoid bone
cribriform plates
cribrose (current term)
cribrous
cribrous lamina
cribrum
cribs
cribsheet
cribsheets
cribwork
cribworks
cricetid
cricetids
cricetulus
crichtonite
cricify
cricked

Literary usage of Cribrose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physiological Botany by George Lincoln ( Goodale (1890)
"cribrose-cells, Sieve-cells, or Sieve-tubes. 279. ... The walls of cribrose-cells are never lignified ; on the contrary, they are Flo. 69. ..."

2. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1885)
"The cribrose and woody parts of a collateral bundle are generally distinguishable from each other by the lignified char- 1 De Bary reserves for these cells ..."

3. Synopsis of American Wasps by Henri de Saussure (1875)
"The first segment cribrose like the thorax, funnel-shaped, a little petiolate ... Second segment cylindrical, much elongated, though not strongly cribrose. ..."

4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1896)
"Teeth large, mostly cribrose. Pedicel little longer than the often hair-pointed leaves * Grimmia, 134 Teeth small, often truncate or rudimentary; ..."

5. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Academy of Science Meeting (1896)
"Teeth large, mostly cribrose. Pedicel little longer than the often hair-pointed leaves * Grimmia, 134 Teeth small, often truncate or rudimentary; ..."

6. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1878)
"Head and thorax exceedingly coarsely cribrose; the metathorax not as coarsely so, ... The first segment cribrose like the thorax, funnel-shaped, ..."

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