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death's-head

death's-head noun: a human skull, especially as symbol of death.

death's-head: a human skull, especially as symbol of death
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Noun

death's-head (plural death's-heads)

  1. A human skull, especially as symbol of death.
    • To the confusion and confounding of that cursed death's-head knight.1952, Ivanhoe, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2018
    • This Komarov, a Cossack’s son, was a very short man with a crew cut and a death's-head's nostrils.1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 3.5, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 71
  2. A kind of hawk moth with pale markings on the back of the thorax somewhat like a skull.

Forms of death's-head

pluraldeath's-heads
alternative formdeath's head

Phrases with death's-head

Questions about death's-head

What does death's-head mean?
Death's-head means a human skull, especially as symbol of death.
What part of speech is death's-head?
Death's-head is a noun.
What is the plural of death's-head?
The plural of death's-head is death's-heads.

Words near death's-head in the dictionary

  1. death zones
  2. death's head
  3. death's head moth
  4. death's heads
  5. death's herb
  6. death's-head
  7. death's-head hawkmoth
  8. death's-head hawkmoths
  9. death's-heads
  10. death-bearing
  11. death-bed

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