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noun

Death's-head n. 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."

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Death's-head moth" Quotes from Famous Books

... with gloomy despair, and here are the phantom-like thoughts which tap, with wings of a bat, the beak of a vulture, the body of a death's-head moth, upon the walls of the palace in which, enkindled by desire, glows your brain ...

— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac