Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of cranium.
  • noun A genus of Brachiopoda, typical of the family Craniidæ. See cut under Craniidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.

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  • noun Plural form of cranium.

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Examples

  • The perceived price to pay for being wrong extends well beyond the walls of our crania.

    Dr. Jim Taylor: 3 Words We Need in Politics Dr. Jim Taylor 2011

  • 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 Difficult Art of Inspiring Olympians Sam Leith 2011

  • 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.

    Think Progress » ‘Holder-in-Chief’ Coburn issues far-fetched threat against Democrats who switch votes in favor of health reform. 2010

  • 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 Forever City Robert Hughes 2011

  • 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.

    Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010

  • I am here to answer questions they'd never even be able to fit inside their yutzik crania.

    Too Fast to be Fat 2010

  •            I am an artist who has made plaster casts of the crania of noted physicists, including Max Planck and Charles Glover Barkla.

    A Selection From Einstein's Letters 2010

  • 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.

    Where Shrunken Heads Are a Big Attraction 2010

  • 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.

    Michael Crichton biography 2008

  • I have learned so much from it ie reasons for collecting whale post crania.

    Fieldwork Friday ReBecca Foster 2009

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