Thesaurus
:
skull
T
hesaurus
skull
English
Noun
Sense: main bone of the head
Synonyms
brain bucket
(
dated
,
informal
)
brainbox
(
informal
)
brainpan
cranium
harnpan
skull
Hypernyms
bone
Meronyms
braincase
cranium
mandible
maxilla
zygomatic bone
lacrimal bone
nasal bone
ethmoid bone
sphenoid bone
frontal bone
temporal bone
parietal bone
occipital bone
Holonyms
skeleton
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
head
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
body
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
Further reading
“
skull
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
skull
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.