(Scotland) The principal legal adviser to the Lord Advocate on prosecution matters.

plural of crown agent

a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps.

plural of crown graph

(graph theory) An undirected graph with 2n vertices in the two sets { u₁, u₂, ..., uₙ } and { v₁, v₂, ..., vₙ } and with an edge from uᵢ to vⱼ whenever i ≠ j.

plural of crown virus

(rare, virology) A member of the family Coronaviridae; a coronavirus.

A lease of crown land (land belonging to the government when the head of state is a monarch).

(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

In England and Wales, a higher court of law that sits regularly in various regional locations, normally with a judge and jury. It deals with serious offences referred from magistrates' courts, as well as appeals against the decisions of magistrates' courts.