incrassate

American  

[in-kras-eyt, in-kras-it, -eyt] / ɪnˈkræs eɪt, ɪnˈkræs ɪt, -eɪt /

verb (used with object)

incrassated, incrassating

1. Pharmacology. to make (a liquid) thicker by addition of another substance or by evaporation.

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adjective

1. Botany, Entomology. Also incrassated thickened or swollen.

incrassate British  

adjective

1. biology thickened or swollen

   incrassate cell walls

2. obsolete fattened or swollen

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verb

1. obsolete to make or become thicker

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• incrassation
  noun
• incrassative
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of incrassate

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Late Latin incrassātus, past participle of incrassāre “to fatten, make thick,” derivative of crassus “thick, dense, stout, heavy, deep, opaque”; see in- ², crass, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Abdomen very smooth and shining; the node of the petiole incrassate and tapering upwards into an acute spine.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various

The node of the petiole incrassate, very slightly elevated; viewed sideways, broadly wedge-shaped; the abdomen ovate.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various

Had no schoolmaster in moments of heroic enthusiasm attempted to pound a few rules of rhetoric through my incrassate skull?

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward

Abdomen very smooth and shining, with the apical margins of the segments narrowly rufo-piceous; the posterior legs incrassate and dark rufo-piceous.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various

Thorax rugose-striate, the anterior lateral angles dentate, the metathorax without spines; the femora thickly incrassate and greatly attenuated at their base.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various