Calvaria

The knoll was the old Aramaic Golgotha-in Latin, Calvaria; anglicized, Calvary; translated, The Skull.

Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901

Only in Luke 23: 33, the Latin name Calvaria, which was used as a translation of the Greek word Kranion, by which the Hebrew word

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

The Calvaria, a hardwood species, were able to survive for 300 years without the bird but nearly went the same way as the dodo.

The dodo hunters 2006

In 1973, a scientist suggested that the Mauritian tree, the Calvaria or Tambalacoque, was dying out because it had entrusted its reproductive future with the dodo.

The dodo hunters 2006

Soon after her death, the Wojtyla's father took him on a journey to Calvaria, a series of shrines outside his hometown.

CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2006 2006

The inclusion of the Calvaria case suggests that even an eminent theorist like Diamond is susceptible to being misled by faulty reports from the field.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

THE STORY of the Calvaria tree and the dodo is equally neat, though far more dubious.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The current absence (or apparent absence) of young plants and the current failure (or apparent failure) of germination led him toward a risky deductive leap across an epistemological chasm: that there had been “no germination of Calvaria seeds for hundreds of years.”

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The other case—concerning a tree species, Calvaria, major, on Mauritius—is probably fallacious.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

In the case of Calvaria major as presented by Temple, this tree species had mysteriously lost its ability to reproduce and was therefore approaching extinction.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004