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Definition of "crania" [cra•ni•a]

  • A plural of cranium. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "crania" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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."