Thesaurus:skull

Thesaurus

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.