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skullcap
[ skuhl-kap ]
skullcap
/ ˈskʌlˌkæp /
noun
- a rounded brimless hat fitting the crown of the head
- the nontechnical name for calvaria
- any of various perennial plants of the genus Scutellaria, esp S. galericulata, that typically have helmet-shaped flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
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Example Sentences
A crew led by Dutch physician-turned-anthropologist Eugène Dubois had uncovered a skullcap and thigh bone.
In the 1890s, a crew led by Dutch physician-turned-anthropologist Eugène Dubois had uncovered a skullcap and thigh bone on the Indonesian island of Java.
No one outside his inner circle had been made aware, because the cut could be hidden under his skullcap.
He does not wear a skullcap, the most prominent marker of Orthodox observance.
And there this year was Melching, translating again, but this time the deep voice of Demba Diawara, an elderly imam in a skullcap.
The merchant debated, removing his skullcap, smoothing his grizzled fringe of curls, fitting the cap on again deliberately.
Solly Gumble removed his skullcap, fluffed his scanty ring of curls, and drew on the cap again.
Sir Peter, an old gentleman in a velvet skullcap, particularly enlarged upon the latter.
Five or six gentlemen, whom I recognized as the directors of the asylum, were standing round the steward in the black skullcap.
She had expected to find an old man with spectacles and a skullcap, the typical pawnbroker one sees in the moving pictures.
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