Synonyms for skull
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1. skullnoun

   Synonyms:
   cranium

2. skullnoun

   To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.

   Synonyms:
   cranium

3. skullnoun

   A symbol for death; death's-head

   Synonyms:
   cranium

Princeton's WordNet

1. skullnoun

   the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates

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1. • Bone

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1. skullnoun

   Synonyms:
   cranium, brain-pan

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1. skullnoun

   Synonyms:
   cranium, death's-head

   Associated words:
   cranial, acrania, acranial, craniology, phrenology, trepan, trephine, fontanel, sphenoid, cephalism, parietes, parietal, crossbones, occiput, frontal, sinciput

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1. List of paraphrases for "skull":

   cranium, head, crane, scalp, skeleton, sake, brain

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1. Herman Melville:

   The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

2. Steve Brusatte:

   [The back end of the skull] turned out to be the Rosetta stone, it's a very complex part of the anatomy that we can easily compare to a lot of other dinosaurs, and that's what told us we definitely had a tyrannosaur, that it was a new species, and that it was only about the size of a horse.

3. enamel pins:

   The Skull Butterfly is a personalized display

4. Mike Everhart:

   The bear skull was washed out of the same river sediments that routinely produce the skulls and bones of the American bison, some of which could date back as far as the last Ice Age, whether it is hundreds or thousands of years old, the skull gives us a better insight into the richness of life on the plains before Western man.

5. Freedman Fowler:

   Acristavus does not have a crest. The top of its skull is flat. Brachylophosaurus has a large, flat, paddle-shaped crest that completely covers the back of the top of its skull, it is a perfect example of evolution within a single lineage of dinosaurs over millions of years.