"drum head" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: drum heads [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} drum head (plural drum heads)
  1. The thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell for the purpose of striking, sometimes made of skin and in such occurrences sometimes referred to as a skin, or drum-skin, but often synthetic. Synonyms: skin, drumskin, drumhead Derived forms: drumhead cabbage, drumhead clock, drumhead court-martial, drumhead tribunal Translations (thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell): trommeskind (Danish), trommelvel [neuter] (Dutch), rumpukalvo (Finnish), isi (Greenlandic), parche (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-drum_head-en-noun-VjocMLhY Disambiguation of 'thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell': 98 2
  2. A drumhead cabbage. Categories (lifeform): Brassicas
    Sense id: en-drum_head-en-noun-N5Eeiw8x Disambiguation of Brassicas: 24 76 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 72 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 21 79 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 74

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