Crossword clues for crania
crania
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crania \Cra"ni*a\ (kr?"n?-?), n. [NL.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.
Cranium \Cra"ni*um\ (kr?"n?-?m), n.; pl. E. Craniums (-?mz), L. Crania (-?). [NL., fr. Gr. ????; akin to ka`ra head.] The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of cranium English)
WordNet
See cranium
Wikipedia
Crania is an extinct genus of brachiopods that lived during the Upper Cretaceous.
Usage examples of "crania".
On his other side, the vivacious Crania, now a lady to Queen Gruach, met with no better success as she fluttered her long eyelashes and smiled and tried to flirt with Fergus.
When Elen thought she could bear no more of noise and music and coarse jests, Gruach herself, accompanied by Fionna and Crania, led her away from the banquet hall.
She wondered if Crania had slipped out to meet Fergus, if the two of them were off in some quiet corner of the palace making love.
And what of sweet, foolish Crania, who had been singularly unchanged by her brief marriage to an aged thane?
He fled when he realized Bancho was dead, and he took Crania with him.
They took three-year-old Crania with them and tramped the nearby hillsides to find wild herbs or dig roots.
Little Crania ran to her father and threw her arms about his neck as Talcoran tossed her into the air.
Colin and little Crania, Fionna and her daughter Elen, Briga and Ava, and the aged Dougal clustered around Elen as she broke the seal and opened the parchment.
By the next day, seven-year-old Crania was sick, too, and the day after that Colin took to his bed.
The following night Crania coughed her life away, and it was Fionna who held a grieving Elen.
Queen Crania, solemn and silent, assumed her place beside him, her gaze quick with interest and I took heart that she at least did not scowl when she regarded me.
As adult human crania would have been awkwardly large, the god found it more convenient to use only those of infants and small children.
In addition, von Diicker observed many dozens of crania of Hipparion and antelope showing methodical removal of the upper jaw in order to extract the brain.
Perhaps in contrasting the two, Crania and Julia, he could find the elusive answer at last?
Their crania were notably larger, their heavy fighting teeth a little smaller, their scaly skin less tough.