cristate

First attested in 1661; borrowed from Latin cristātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

cristate (comparative more cristate, superlative most cristate)

1. Having a crest; crested.
   • 1924, William Williams Henderson, A Taxonomic and Ecological Study of the Species of the Subfamily Oedipodinae (Orthoptera-Acrididae) Found in Utah, page 53:

     Median carina strongly cristate on the prozone and on the metazone and with one deep transverse incision so that the prozone is only about one-third the length of the metazone, the incision inclined anterio-ventrad.

• crest

• cartiest, citrates, scattier

cristāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cristātus