cribratores

pl. [From Lat. cribro = to sift. So called from the way in which the birds take their food.] Ornith.: Macgillivray's name for a section of the Wading Birds. It contains the Geese and the Ducks. The name has not been generally adopted. cri-bri-form, a . [Lat. cribrum a sieve, and form a form, appearance.] Like or resembling a sieve; pierced with numerous holes. (Used in anatomy, botany, .) 1. Anat .: There is a cribriform lamella or plate of the ethmoid bone, separating the nasal cavities from the brain, pierced with holes for the transmi ion of the filaments of the olfactory nerves. There are also a cribriform portion of the temporal bone, the lamina cribrosa , having in its lower part small apertures through which the divisions of the auditory nerve pa ; and a cribriform fascia of the hip, perforated by numerous small foramina for the pa age of blood-ve els and lymphatics. " the white commi ure which has a cribriform appearance, from being perforated by numerous blood ve els."- Todd & Bowman : Physiol . Anat . , vol. i., ch. X., p. 256. 2. Bot .: There are certain cribriform cells, tubes, or ve els, thin-walled and delicate, described by Nagli as lying outside the cambium. It is believed that the descending sap pa es through them. ( R. Brown .) briform. cri-brōşe, a . [As if from a Lat. cribrosus , from cribrum a sieve.] Perforated like a sieve; cricri-çe-to-don, s . [Mod. Lat. cricetus, and Gr. odous , odontos =a tooth.] Palæont .: A genus of fo il Muride, allied to Cricetus (q. v.). Various species occur in the Miocene of France. ( Nicholson .)