The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cryptal
Cryptal \Crypt"al\ (-al), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to crypts.
Wiktionary
cryptal
a. (context anatomy English) Of or pertaining to crypts (small pits or cavities in the body).
Usage examples of "cryptal".
The marble, worn and mellowed by the subtle hand of time, took on an unspeakable rosy hue, suggestive in some remote way of the honey colored columns of the Parthenon, but more mystic, more complex, a color not born of the sun's inveterate kiss, but made up of cryptal twilight, and the flame of candles upon martyrs' tombs, and gleams of sunset through symbolic panes of chrysoprase and ruby.