Cranium

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  • noun. The skull.
  • noun. The portion of the skull enclosing the brain; the braincase.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The skull of a human being, or, as now-used, of any animal; the bones of the head, collectively.
  • noun. More exactly, the brain-box; the bony case of the encephalon, as distinguished from those bones of the skull which support the face and jaws. See cranial.
  • noun. In entomology, the integument of an insect's head excluding the antennæ, eyes, and oral apparatus, and including the epicranium, gula, and occiput.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See skull.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The skull of a vertebrate.
  • noun. That part of the skull enclosing the brain, the braincase.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the part of the skull that encloses the brain
    • Word Usage
    "Would SOMEBODY extract this guy's cranium from the deep, dark, haunts of his rectum?"
    cross-reference
    skull  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bone  os  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    geranium  titanium  uranium  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crania  pate  pelvis  perineum  trephine  
    variant
    crania  skull  
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