Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From schedel +‎ -loos.

The sense “cephalochordate” comes from the taxon Acrania.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈsxeː.dəlˌloːs/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: sche‧del‧loos

Adjective edit

schedelloos (comparative schedellooser, superlative meest schedelloos or schedelloost)

  1. skull-less [from 19th c.]
  2. cephalochordate, any member of the subphylum Cephalochordata [from 1930s]

Inflection edit

Inflection of schedelloos
uninflected schedelloos
inflected schedelloze
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial schedelloos
indefinite m./f. sing. schedelloze
n. sing. schedelloos
plural schedelloze
definite schedelloze
partitive schedelloos

Derived terms edit