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Acherontia atropos
(gcide) | Death's-head \Death's"-head`\, n.
A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the
conventional personification of death.
[1913 Webster]
I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone
in his mouth. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Death's-head moth (Zool.), 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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acherontia atropos
(wn) | Acherontia atropos
n 1: European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a
human skull [syn: death's-head moth, {Acherontia
atropos}] |
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Acherontia atropos
(gcide) | Death's-head \Death's"-head`\, n.
A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the
conventional personification of death.
[1913 Webster]
I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone
in his mouth. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Death's-head moth (Zool.), 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.
[1913 Webster] |
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