skullcap

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small domed cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck.
    — He was a short man with a long hooked nose. A blue skull-cap with a red border scarcely covered his head of bristly grey hair, and a short-bodied but long Ringerike coat of dark grey frieze with worn velvet borders served to make the roundness and crookedness of his back still more conspicuous.
  2. A yarmulke-like hat.
  3. The calvaria, the top part of the skull, covering the cranial cavity containing the brain.
  4. Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Scutellaria, in the Lamiaceae family.
  5. A torture device for compressing the skull. historical

词形变化

skullcaps plural skull cap alternative skull-cap alternative

词源

Etymology tree
English skull
Late Latin [Term?]?
Late Latin cappabor.
Proto-West Germanic *kappā
Proto-West Germanic *kappijā
Old English cæppe
Middle English cappe
English cap
English skullcap
From skull + cap.
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