[ad. L. crīnīt-us hairy, f. crīnis hair.] Hairy; having a hairy or hair-like appendage; spec. in Bot. and Zool. having tufts of hairy growth on the surface.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XIV. xliv. How comate, crinite, caudate starres are fram’d I knew.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. 248.
| The Cane like to a blazing Starre Crinite, | |
| Greater appear’d, (but yet did not affright). |
1852. Dana, Crust., I. 436. Flagellum of outer antennæ more or less crinite, often long ciliate.
