cryptically

cryptic | American Dictionary

cryptic
adjective
us/ˈkrɪp·tɪk/
mysterious and difficult to understand:
a cryptic message/remark

Examples of cryptic

cryptic
Meliponine nests are often fairly cryptic and can be difficult to locate.
In yet another sense, a literary work can become a cryptic embodiment of traumatic losses for a readership torn by inexpressible anxieties.
We have no reason to suspect the identifications of these species (unless they are cryptic species).
The isopod probably avoided earlier detection because of its cryptic habits.
It is suggested that the cryptic non-additive variance, especially epistasis, can be released when a population is disturbed by changes in the environment.
However, in some cases this process can reveal further cryptic, alternative splice sites, and thus, unexpectedly, reduce vector expression.
However, adjacent clines would tend to annihilate each other, and some mechanism is needed to generate cryptic divergence.
The use of photographic rates to estimate d ensities of tigers and o ther cryptic mammals.
The coccids have a cryptic endophytic lifestyle and are confined to this microhabitat.
One explanation is that they simply represent gene flow that occurs between the cryptic species.
The cryptic female choice hypothesis, in contrast, predicts frequent lack of complementary structures or behaviour in the female.
In cryptic crosswords this phenomenon is taken to an extreme.
Some of the cryptic lifestyles of some fish parasites may have evolved, in part, as a response to cleaning.
A second, deeper, level of meaning, however, has been suggested, more hidden and cryptic and marked by liminality.
The owl's response is brief and cryptic: learn how to fly.
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