occiput
noun
the back part of the head or skull.
occiputs
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pluralof occiput.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Let the occiputs, thus cut off, be interchanged, applying each to the head of his opposite party-man.
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
He had put them into awkward and constrained attitudes, of course; and they all looked as if they had the instrument of torture which photographers call a head-rest under their occiputs.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
Twelve occiputs were flattened, and in four of these there was no tubercle; eighteen had an enormously developed occipital protuberance.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
