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sacrum

[sak-ruhm, sey-kruhm] / ˈsæk rəm, ˈseɪ krəm /


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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

Luz, luz, n. a bone supposed by Rabbinical writers to be indestructible, probably the sacrum.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

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

Here was the auri sacra fames in its most maddening and tantalising intensity.

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard

They are joined at the coccyges and sacra, and the spinal columns have nearly the same axis.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin




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