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Answer for the clue "Butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull ", 8 letters:
sphenoid

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1732, from spheno- + -oid . As a noun from 1828. Related: Sphenoidal .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull [syn: sphenoid bone , os sphenoidale ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sphenoid may refer to: sphenoid bone , a bone in anatomy sphenoid (geometry) , a tetrahedron with 2-fold mirror or rotation symmetry