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noun. A staff about 5 feet long, ending in a hook or curve, or, in the case of an archbishop's crozier, surmounted by an ornamented cross or crucifix, borne by or before a bishop or archbishop on solemn occasions.

noun. One who bears the crozier or the cross; a cross-bearer.

noun. In astronomy, a constellation, the Southern Cross. See Crux, 2.

noun. In botany, the circinate young frond of a fern. Also crozier-head, crozier-bud.

noun. The flat, spirally coiled shell of the cephalopodous mollusk Spirula.

noun. See crosier.

noun. Alternative spelling of crosier.

noun. a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office

"St. Patrick, being a Bishop, carried a thing called a crozier -- a kind of long staff, like a shepherd's crook, because _Bishop_ means _shepherd_."

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