sacrum

The study, published in Analytical Chemistry, examined an exceptionally well preserved Edmontosaurus sacrum weighing 22 kilograms.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

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

For some mysterious reason the part of the backbone which lies between the bones of the hips and supports them is termed the sacrum.

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

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

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

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

In the Index is first of all the following, 'Mr. Crashaw's Epigrams, sacra Latina;' but it is erased.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

Then Ekkehard laughingly told him the following words out of Virgil: "Auri sacra fames, quid non mortalia cogis pectora?"

From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel