death`s-head

death`s-head is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] 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. Shak. Death`s-head moth (Zoöl.), 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.

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