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

• 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

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incrassate incrassated

Abdomen ovate; the scale incrassate, armed above with two stout acute teeth.

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

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

Abdomen smooth, shining, and ferruginous; the node of the petiole incrassate, cylindric, and tapering upwards into a very acute spine.

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

Very closely resembling the female, but rather smaller; the anterior and intermediate femora more incrassate, and all the femora with a simple row of teeth or serrations on their inferior margins.

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

Cells campanulate, nearly sessile upon an incrassated collar projecting from the stem.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John

Face broad; antennæ short, third joint elongate-conical; arista bare; middle femora incrassated, denticulated beneath.

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

Some find sepulchral vessels containing liquors, which time hath incrassated into jellies.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir