Resembling or having the characteristics of a sieve; having holes, perforations, or a sieve-like structure.
From Latin 'cribrum' meaning sieve plus '-ose' suffix meaning full of or resembling. A specialized term in anatomy and biology.
The cribriform plate in your nose (with tiny holes letting smell molecules pass through) comes from the same Latin root—literally 'sieve-shaped' because it acts like a molecular filter!
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