Death's-head /(?)/
Death's·-head
Death's-head
n.
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A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth.
Phrases & Compounds
- Death's-head moth
- a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also death's-head sphinx.