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  1. 1. n. 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. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) Source: wordnet
  4. 4. 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 cryps of Lieberk. Source: webster
  5. 5. A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, thecryps of Lieberk. Source: adambom
  6. 6. n:100 n. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) Source: ecdict

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