sacrum

The concept of a Christian “holy war”—a war conferring spiritual benefits—originates in medieval Latin Christianity, with its crusader theology of bellum sacrum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The fossil at the center of the study is a 22-kilogram Edmontosaurus sacrum, part of the dinosaur's hip region, recovered from South Dakota's famous Hell Creek Formation.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone shattered his pelvis and detached his sacrum after a recent fall from a 20-foot ladder at his farmhouse in Connecticut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

Woods said his sacrum had to be put back in place.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024

The hind limbs similarly receive air from the abdominal air cell, which supplies the femur and other bones of the leg, the sacrum, and the tail.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

Warm winters and showery summers are the perfect conditions for the Boswellia sacra tree to produce the sap called frankincense.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010

Most of the Boswellia sacra trees grow on public land, but custom dictates that each forest is given to one of the local families to farm, and Wadi Dawkah is his turf.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010

With a practised flick, he cuts a strip of bark from the trunk of one of the Boswellia sacra trees.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010

Few spots in Rome exceed in varied interest the isola sacra which with its two historic bridges the pons Fabricius and the pons Cestius spans the Tiber at the heart of the city.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

Jerome had marked it out; Sulpicius Severus, the biographer of St Martin, in his Historia sacra, adorned it with the attractions of romance.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various