crucifer
- n any of various plants of the family Cruciferae
- Anda skinny little substitute crucifer, home from boarding school, would tell himself tremblingly: "Boy, I sure do.
- Led by a crucifer and four churchmen in hot black cassocks carrying Christian flags, a parade formed one evening last week near the grave of famed Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody .
- Down the center aisle came a solemn single file: a black-robed verger, a crucifer, church dignitaries in black and scarlet, the tanned, white-topped "Red Dean" of Canterbury, 14 .