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skull-measurer

skull-measurer noun: a phrenologist.

Noun

skull-measurer (plural skull-measurers)

  1. (historical) A phrenologist.
    • Language, albeit an abstraction, is yet a more subtle and pervasive criterion of individuality than the culture-group formed by comparing flints and potsherds or the "races" of the skull-measurer.1926, V. Gordon Childe, chapter 1, in The Aryans, page 4
    • Some classified them as irreducibly distinct from Europeans while others, such as the prolific skull-measurer Samuel George Morton, classified them as nearly "Caucasian," that is, White.2021, Matthew W. Dougherty, chapter 5, in Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America, page 136

Forms of skull-measurer

pluralskull-measurers

Questions about skull-measurer

What does skull-measurer mean?
Skull-measurer means a phrenologist.
What part of speech is skull-measurer?
Skull-measurer is a noun.
What is the plural of skull-measurer?
The plural of skull-measurer is skull-measurers.

Words near skull-measurer in the dictionary

  1. skull-fuck
  2. skull-fucked
  3. skull-fucking
  4. skull-fucks
  5. skull-like
  6. skull-measurer
  7. skull-measurers
  8. skull-pan
  9. skull-pans
  10. skull-splitter
  11. skull-splitting

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