sacrum

Deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office identified it as a human sacrum, the triangular bone at the base of the spine, and submitted it to a state Department of Justice system of DNA samples.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 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

The fossil at the center of the study is a 22-kilogram Edmontosaurus sacrum, part of the dinosaur's hip region, recovered from South Dakota's famous Hell Creek Formation.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

Woods said his sacrum had to be put back in place.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024

Position: Sitting with legs crossed; pain in and about right knee; stretching arm; tensive drawing from left shoulder up to neck; lifting; tensive drawing in left shoulder; pain in sacrum.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

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

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

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

Here was the auri sacra fames in its most maddening and tantalising intensity.

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Howard Willoughby

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