sacrum

The sacrum is a group of vertebrae connected to the pelvis and forms part of the animal's lower spine.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

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

Subsacral, sub-sā′kral, adj. situated on the anterior or ventral surface of the sacrum.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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

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

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

The parchment strip he held in his hand, and with a clear firm voice he pronounced the words, the meaning of which he did not understand, "Auri sacra fames, quid non mortalia cogis pectora."

From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

The leading idea in both cases remains the same; it is the fatal curse which attaches to the gold or, which is the same in a moral sense, to the desire for gold—auri sacra fames.

From A Selection from the Poems of William Morris by William Morris