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skull

12 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) skull (noun)
  2. 2) skull (verb)
  3. skull and crossbones (noun)
  4. skull coral (noun)
  5. skull cracker (noun)
  6. skull-pan (noun)
  7. skull practice (noun)
  8. skull session (noun)
  9. Fish Hoek skull (noun)
  10. iron skull (noun)
  11. Java skull (noun)
  12. steeple skull (noun)

1skull

noun \ˈskəl\

Definition of SKULL

1
: the skeleton of the head of a vertebrate forming a bony or cartilaginous case that encloses and protects the brain and chief sense organs and supports the jaws
2
: the seat of understanding or intelligence : mind
— skulled \ˈskəld\ adjective
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Examples of SKULL

  1. He had a fractured skull.
  2. <paleoanthropologists recently found the skull of a prehistoric man in a remote area of the desert>

Origin of SKULL

Middle English skulle, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialect skulle skull
First Known Use: 13th century

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Rhymes with SKULL

cull, dull, gull, hull, lull, mull, null, scull, trull

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