Any of various plants of the family Cruciferae

Usage examples of crucifer.

Ulad, furious as usual, led the way behind the cardinal crucifer, but kept looking back to see that the others stayed in line.

I bow my head as the crucifer leads the procession, and then the choir comes past me.

He was said to have asked permission of the pope, that a crucifer should precede him in processions.

At the climax, the hero beat the priest to death with his own crucifer, and prepared to welcome Them as They came.

After the service in the church the procession of choir and clergy, headed by the crucifer, issues from the doorway, followed by stalwart men carrying the bier upon their shoulders.

Immediately within the nave, the crucifer, thurifers and choristers waited, and the latter burst into a joyful psalm as the processed before the priests up the long nave to the parish altar of St Lawrence, set just before the western arch of the crossing.

A crucifer and two priests swinging thuribles walked before him, and Lord Tammaron and Richard Murdoch rode to either side, both soberly clad in mourning like the rest.

Then it goes on to ‘Anti-crop BW agents’, which they say would be used as economic weapons, as I personally think is the case with the Blofeld scheme, and they mention a whole list including potato blight, cereal stem disease, crown rust of oats, curly top disease of sugar beets, block rot of crucifers and potato ring rot, and insects such as the Colorado beetle and something called ‘the Giant African Land-snail’, which I somehow don’t think we need worry about.

Then it goes on to "Anti-crop BW agents", which they say would be used as economic weapons, as I personally think is the case with the Blofeld scheme, and they mention a whole list including potato blight, cereal stem disease, crown rust of oats, curly top disease of sugar beets, block rot of crucifers and potato ring rot, and insects such as the Colorado beetle and something called "the Giant African Land-snail", which I somehow don't think we need worry about.

The torrent of music and trained voices poured over Honor in a magnificent tide which seemed to simultaneously focus and amplify the upwelling cyclone of the emotions all about her as the procession advanced down the cathedral's nave behind the crucifers and thurifers.

The torrent of music and trained voices poured over Honor in a magnificent tide which seemed to simultaneously focus and amplify the upwelling cyclone of the emotions all about her as the procession advanced down the cathedral’s nave behind the crucifers and thurifers.

The celebrants began to process: cassocked and sur-pliced thurifer swinging pungent incense, crucifer with black-shrouded processional cross, altar boys bearing glowing silver candlesticks.