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skulled

skulled

1 7.3
Having bones around the brain that protect it
  • adjective
  • Specialized
: craneal

Examples

  • Why, you thick-skulled, harebrained, half-witted greenhorn.

    Charade (1963)

  • Chunked and half-skulled wedge shots and chips/pitches almost always give away the hole.

    Blog text (34)

  • The baby had a softskulled head, making it more fragile during its early months.

  • Birds with uniqueskulled structures often have adapted to their specific feeding habits.

  • The paleontologist studied theskulled fossils to understand the evolution of the species.

Synonyms

cranial
vsskulled
  • Specialized
31 6.5

Relating to the part of the skull that holds the brain

refers more broadly to having those head bones or their overall type

Compounds

thick-skulled
  • Offensive
9 8.1

Not quick to understand or learn new things

Surface Forms

skulled positive

Morphology

skulled = skull (transparent) = skull + ed

Regular adjectival formation from the noun 'skull' using '-ed' meaning 'having' or 'characterized by', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Skulled comes from the common word skull, which means 'the bony head' that protects the brain. The ending -ed means 'having', so skulled means 'having a skull'.