crypto-, crypt-

A reference to organisms that use a covering of other organisms or inanimate material to conceal themselves.

A marsh plant with amphibious vegetative parts.

Monitoring the aquatic environment to determine the health of a stream.

1. A hidden vault.
2. Various recesses, glandular cavities, etc. in the body; such as, tonsillar crypts.

1. A hidden vault.
2. A chapel or oratory underground, or under a church or cathedral.

The procedures and methods used in translating or interpreting codes and ciphers; the science or study of such procedures.

1. Cryptomnesia (subconscious memory) or hidden memory.
2. The recall of memories not recognized as such but thought to be original creations.

A secret ruler.

A secret government.

In medicine, excision of a crypt (a blind pit or tube) in a body.

1. The power of perceiving without a sensory mechanism; clairvoyance.
2. A general term for clairvoyance, clairaudience, and other types of paranormal cognition in which the sensory stimulus is unknown.

1. Deliberately mysterious and seeming to have a hidden meaning.
2. With an indirect solution or clue, e.g., crosswords, puzzles, or anagrams.
3. Secret or hidden in some way.
4. Using or relating to codes and similar techniques.
5. In zoology, used to describe body markings and color that camouflage an animal.