Occiput

//ˈɒk.sɪ.pʌt//

Synonyms for "occiput" (16 found)

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Related word relations

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More general

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Related terms

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defined as

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derived

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etymologically related_to

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has context

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is a

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part of

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related to

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Translations

41 translations across 32 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • قَذَال noun (Translations)

Armenian

1 entries
  • ծոծրակ noun (Translations)

Aromanian

1 entries
  • mãdular noun (Translations)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • тил noun (Translations)

Catalan

1 entries
  • occípit noun (Translations)

Czech

1 entries
  • týl noun (Translations)

Dutch

1 entries
  • achterhoofd noun (Translations)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • okcipito noun (Translations)
  • postkranio noun (Translations)

Finnish

1 entries
  • takaraivo noun (Translations)

French

1 entries
  • occiput noun (Translations)

German

1 entries
  • Hinterkopf noun (Translations)

Hausa

1 entries
  • kwanyā noun (Translations)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • nyakszirt noun (Translations)
  • tarkó noun (Translations)

Irish

2 entries
  • cúlphlaic noun (Translations)
  • ocsapat noun (Translations)

Italian

1 entries
  • occipite noun (Translations)

Latgalian

1 entries
  • pakauss noun (Translations)

Latvian

1 entries
  • pakausis noun (Translations)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • pakaušis noun (Translations)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • اكسه noun (Translations)

Polish

1 entries
  • potylica noun (Translations)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • occipital noun (Translations)
  • occiput noun (Translations)
  • occipício noun (Translations)
  • occipúcio noun (Translations)

Russian

1 entries
  • заты́лок noun (Translations)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • zatiljak noun (Translations)
  • затиљак noun (Translations)

Slovak

1 entries
  • tylo noun (Translations)

Spanish

2 entries
  • colodrillo noun (Translations)
  • occipucio noun (Translations)

Swedish

1 entries
  • bakhuvud noun (Translations)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • pangawol noun (Translations)
  • pilipot noun (Translations)

Tamil

1 entries
  • பின்னந்தலை noun (Translations)

Thai

1 entries
  • ท้ายทอย noun (Translations)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • поти́лиця noun (Translations)

West-Frisian

1 entries
  • efterholle noun (Translations)

Yoruba

1 entries
  • ìpàkọ́ noun (Translations)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

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And then came Turbor, who sat quietly and unemotionally through the fifteen minute process, and Munn, who jerked at the first touch of the electrodes, and then spent the session rolling his eyes as though he wished he could turn them backwards and watch through a hole in his occiput.

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He wore a large white cotton Nubian shirt, trimmed with red pompons, and shaved his head, except for one lock at the occiput ‘by which Mohammed lifts you up on Judgement Day’.

Source: wiktionary

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