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skull cap

skull cap is the alternative spelling of skullcap.

Meaning of skullcap

Noun

skullcap (plural skullcaps)

  1. A small domed cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck.
    • He was a short man with a long hooked nose. A blue skull-cap with a red border scarcely covered his head of bristly grey hair, and a short-bodied but long Ringerike coat of dark grey frieze with worn velvet borders served to make the roundness and crookedness of his back still more conspicuous.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 285
  2. A yarmulke-like hat.
  3. The calvaria, the top part of the skull, covering the cranial cavity containing the brain.
  4. Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Scutellaria, in the Lamiaceae family.
  5. (historical) A torture device for compressing the skull.

Forms of skull cap

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Questions about skull cap

What is skull cap the alternative spelling of?
Skull cap is the alternative spelling of skullcap.

Words near skull cap in the dictionary

  1. skull
  2. skull and bones
  3. skull and crossbones
  4. skull base disease
  5. skull base diseases
  6. skull cap
  7. skull caps
  8. skull drum
  9. skull drums
  10. skull fuck
  11. skull fucking

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