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Skullcap

//ˈskʌlkæp// noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    rounded brimless cap fitting the crown of the head wordnet
  3. 3
    A yarmulke-like hat.
  4. 4
    the dome of the skull wordnet
  5. 5
    The calvaria, the top part of the skull, covering the cranial cavity containing the brain.
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  1. 6
    a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised wordnet
  2. 7
    Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Scutellaria, in the Lamiaceae family.
  3. 8
    A torture device for compressing the skull. historical

Etymology

From skull + cap.

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