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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEATH'S-HEAD

DEATH'S-HEAD Death's "-head `, n.

Defn: 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. Shak. Death's-head moth (Zoöl.), 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.

New American Oxford Dictionary

death's-head hawk moth

death's-head hawk moth ▶noun a large dark European hawk moth with a skull-like marking on the thorax and a very large caterpillar. [Acherontia atropos, family Sphingidae. ]