casque

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A helmet.

   “He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.”

2. isim A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as cassowaries, some hornbills and guineafowl, and some reptiles such as chameleons and basilisks.

   “Helmeted Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil (CR): Restricted to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, this is the only hornbill species whose casque is solid keratin and therefore carvable.”

3. isim Synonym of galea.