crine, n.
SECOND EDITION 1989
rare.

(kra{shti}n) [a. It. crine or ad. L. cr{imac}n-is hair: cf. F. crin hair, horse-hair.]

1. Hair, head of hair. Also attrib.
1614 SYLVESTER Du Bartas, Bethulia's Rescue I. 160 Priests, whose sacred Crine Felt never Razor. 1768 Bristol Jrnl. Oct., Hose of Goatskyn, Crinepart outwards. 1865 Athen. No. 1969. 119/3 Both crines look like ill-made wigs.

2. Hawking. = CRINET 2.
1883 SALVIN & BRODRICK Falconry Brit. Isles Gloss. 150.

crine, v.
SECOND EDITION 1989
Sc.

(kra{shti}n) [app. a. Gael. crìon to wither, f. crìon dry, withered.]

1. intr. To shrink, shrivel, contract from dryness.
1501 DOUGLAS Pal. Hon. III. 845 All wycht but sycht of thy gret mycht ay crinis. 1724 RAMSAY Evergreen, Interl. Droichs xiii, I am crynit in for eild. 1818 SCOTT Hrt. Midl. xxxix, ‘And mine bairns hae been crining too, mon.’ 1849 MRS. CARLYLE Lett. II. 62 He had grown old like a golden pippin, merely crined, with the bloom upon him. Mod. Sc. The meat (in stewing) has crined into very little.

b. trans.
1847 Whistlebinkie (Sc. Songs) (1840) II. 165 The drouth it had krined up and slackened the screw. 1878 DICKINSON Cumbrld. Gloss., Crine, to overdo in frying or roasting.

{dag}2. To sweat or clip (coin). Obs. rare{em}1.
1513 DOUGLAS Æneis VIII. Prol. 97 Sum trachour crynis the cun{ygh}e, and kepis corn stakis.

Hence crined ppl. a., shrunken, shrivelled.
1861 RAMSAY Remin. 2nd Ser. 121 A very little ‘crined’ old man.

Nice picture. For all of you who are surprised, there is a well established motif in Western art usually called "The Roman Charity" that depicts the same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Charity

That is what this fish reminded me of SCIENCEBZZT. You are right it does look like Blaschka's plants from Harvard Museum of Natural History. Funny thing is that when photos are taken of those hyper-realistic glass sculptures it is impossible to tell that it is glass. Art imitates reality so well that one wanders what is real.