[mod.L. in form, f. Gr. κρύο-ς frost + -φορος -bearing, -bearer.] An instrument for illustrating the freezing of water by evaporation; that invented by Wollaston consists of a glass tube with a bulb at each end.
1826. Henry, Elem. Chem., I. 134. The instrument invented by Dr. Wollaston, and termed by him the Cryophorus or Frost-bearer.
1863. Tyndall, Heat, v. § 187 (1870), 151.
Hence Cryophoric a., having the nature or function of a cryophorus.
1881. Herschel, in Nature, XXIII. 384. The cryophoric apparatus needed.
