Crosier

Quick meaning: Crosier is a noun meaning (botany) A young fern frond, before it has unrolled.

Meaning

(botany) A young fern frond, before it has unrolled.

More Meanings

1. A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.

Example Sentences

[…]the plastic tube hanging from his nose was attached to an upturned bottle on a tall stand on wheels that he pushed along beside him like a bishop pushing his crosier.

“Nay, most gracious sovereign,” answered the Hermit, (well known to the curious in penny-histories of Robin Hood, by the name of Friar Tuck,) “it is not the crosier I fear, but the sceptre. […]”

[…]the lives of the Latin clergy were more corrupt, and the Eastern bishops might pass for the successors of the apostles, if they were compared with the lordly prelates, who wielded by turns the crosier, the sceptre, and the sword.

Word Forms

• crosiers
• crozier

Synonyms for crosier

Depending on context, synonyms include fiddlehead, crozier.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crozier, cleystaff, crook, cross-staff, crossstaff, crummock.

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