crypt

noun

1. 1

   archaicA cave or cavern.

2. 2

   An underground vault.

3. 3

   An underground vault. Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.

   Near-synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher

   She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.

   On its arrival at Bank, incidentally, the City & South London's directors had threatened to demolish the church of St Mary Woolnoth, but after a public outcry the company built its station in the crypt of the church, the bodies being transferred [...]. Therefore St Mary Woolnoth doesn't have a crypt. Or you could say that its crypt is Bank station.

4. 4

   A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.

   Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa

   Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in the crypts, leading to frequent infections.

5. 5

   Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.

6. 6

   Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.

Forms

plural

crypts