crypt /ˈkrɪpt/
土窖,地穴,地下室
crypt /ˈkrɪpt/ 名詞
小囊,隱窩
Crypt n.
1. A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. --Motley.
My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. --Tennyson.
2. Anat. A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
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crypt
n : a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially
beneath a church)