crozier
/ˈkrəʊzɪə
/(also crosier)
noun
1A hooked staff carried by a bishop as a symbol of pastoral office.Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their office....
- In it, a bishop who had committed disgraceful acts was stripped of the symbols of his office - mitre, crosier and ring.
- A bishop's crozier possibly thought to date from the early 7th century has been found in a peat bog in Co Offaly, 60 miles west of Dublin.
2The curled top of a young fern.It is striking that, at the end of their development, these fruiting bodies also exhibit croziers that are uninucleate and sometimes abnormal in their shape and, consequently, in their development toward meiocytes....
- Arrowheads point to the upper cell of two of the croziers; they show and keep the typical round shape of young croziers and contain two nuclei of opposite mating type.
- However, Neolecta lacks paraphyses, and the croziers do not develop until the ascus is formed.
Origin
Middle English (originally denoting the person who carried a processional cross in front of an archbishop): partly from Old French croisier 'cross-bearer', from crois 'cross', based on Latin crux; reinforced by Old French crocier 'bearer of a bishop's crook', from croce (see crosse).
Rhymes
- polychrest
- polychroic
- polychromasia
- polychromatic
- polychromatic normoblast
- polychromatise
- polychromatism
- polychromatize
- polychromatophil
- polychromatophile
- polychromatophilia
- polychromatophilic
- polychrome
- polychromic
- polychromism
- polychromist
- stick in one's throat (or craw)
- stick insect
- stick-in-the-mud
- stick it to
- stickleback
- stickler
- sticklike
- stick-nest rat
- stick one (or it) on