Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A plural of cranium.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Plural of cranium.
- n. A genus of Brachiopoda, typical of the family Craniidæ. See cut under Craniidæ.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of cranium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.
Examples
“Their words of contempt and hatred will never change the opinion of anyone here – and our words will never penetrate their thick, racist, stubborn crania.”
“Mr. Hirst's dead sharks and electrocuted flies, butchered lambs and diamond-studded crania are all reminders of the futility of human struggle and the inevitability of death.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Difficult Art of Inspiring Olympians
“Marcus Aurelius's hair stands energetically up, a nimbus of corkscrewing locks, not a bit like the conventional signs for hair that plaster so many Roman marble crania.”
“The perceived price to pay for being wrong extends well beyond the walls of our crania.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Jim Taylor: 3 Words We Need in Politics
“ I am an artist who has made plaster casts of the crania of noted physicists, including Max Planck and Charles Glover Barkla.”
“Repeat visits have confirmed that this last seems to be a fan favorite, for everyone man, woman and especially child seems to be captivated by the sight of these surprisingly nonghastly compacted crania.”
The Wall Street Journal: Where Shrunken Heads Are a Big Attraction
“His interest in computer modeling goes back forty years to his multiple-discriminant analysis of Egyptian crania, carried out on an IBM 7090 computer at Harvard, published in the Papers of the Peabody Museum in 1966.”
“It was a mystery: Mountains of skulls with stoved-in crania, ulnas protruding from eye sockets, mandibles cradling shinbones, swirling heaps of sucked, yellow ribs, like the nests of enormous birds—the Minotaur could not help but recognize his own, distinctive handiwork.”
“I am here to answer questions they'd never even be able to fit inside their yutzik crania.”
“I have learned so much from it ie reasons for collecting whale post crania.”
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