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skull-measurers

skull-measurers is the plural of skull-measurer.

Meaning of skull-measurer

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

Questions about skull-measurers

What is skull-measurers the plural of?
Skull-measurers is the plural of skull-measurer.

Words near skull-measurers in the dictionary

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

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