Relating to or describing a shortened sacred or religious part of something, particularly in anthropological or archaeological contexts.
From Greek 'brachy' (short) + 'hieros' (sacred/holy). This is a rare technical term used in anthropological classifications of cultural or religious artifacts.
This word is so specialized it barely appears in modern English—it's a fossil of 19th-century anthropology when scholars tried to classify everything with Greek prefixes!
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