hellmouth.

An entrance to hell represented as a monstrous mouth or gaping opening in art, story, or performance.

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Words that belong together

• a medieval hellmouth
• a gaping hellmouth

On the page

The mural’s hellmouth framed the condemned figures.

The stage’s hellmouth opened as the hidden lamps brightened.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular hellmouth; plural hellmouths. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.