stem of L. crīnis hair: used as comb. form in a number of formations (chiefly nonce-wds.): Crinicultural a., of or pertaining to the growth or culture of hair. Criniferous a., bearing hair. Criniger (Ornith.), a genus of African and Asiatic birds allied to the Thrush, so called from the stiff bristly hairs or setæ on their bills. Crinigerous a., bearing or wearing hair, hairy. Criniparous a., hair-producing. Crinivorous a., hair-devouring.
1837. New Monthly Mag., XLIX. 550. Those criniferous appendages to the head worn by the bucks of that period.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Crinigerous, that hath or weareth hair.
1755. in Johnson.
1819. H. Busk, Vestriad, III. 720. Her front crinigerous, each hair a snake.
1798. Anti-Jacobin, Progr. Man, 38, note. Bears’ grease or fat … supposed to have a criniparous or hair-producing quality.
1837. Wheelwright, trans. Aristophanes, II. 151. But worms crinivorous have eat my crests.
