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Craniums

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.

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craniums

n. (plural of cranium English)

Usage examples of "craniums".

They wore what appeared to be false craniums which rose to a point and beetled over their foreheads.

In a side chamber he found a bin containing false craniums, each with a label and a series of characters.

Two searing spears of white fire flashed from his fingertips, drilling straight through the craniums of both bodyguards.

Even the wax candles that lit the stairwell shone from scrubbed calf craniums, giving Sarga Veys the feeling he was being watched by the spirits of long-dead grasseaters as he made his escape.

As they drew nearer, their high-domed craniums and delicate features became apparent.

He made out squat bodies, knobs of craniums, the green gleam of eyes, not all of the eyes set two and two.

Our high hairless craniums manifest a superior evolutionary level, and our mouth folds pucker into a splendid embouchure for wind instruments.

Again and again, his journal mentioned dissections of human craniums and spinal columns, the latter on which he seems to have focused his depraved attentions.

He reaches Capilano Road above and then lumbers at a pronounced clip through the roads and the subdivisions, counting the colorful dead fireworks and fragments of pumpkin craniums at his feet.

Also, from up close the impression that he was tramping through endless bones—smashing craniums, branched phalanges of wings, zygomatic arches that had separated from the frontals, plus various horns—dwindled to nothing.