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the case of bone that encloses the brain and supports the jaws of vertebrates
  • paleoanthropologists recently found the skull of a prehistoric man in a remote area of the desert

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The first known use of skull was in the 13th century

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“Skull.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skull. Accessed 10 December 2019.

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