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brachycephaloid

brachycephaloid is the alternative form of brachycephalic.

Meaning of brachycephalic

Adjective

brachycephalic (not comparable)

  1. Having a head that is short from front to back (relative to its width from left to right); having a broad skull with a cephalic index over 80.
    • "Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?"1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    brachycephalous, brachycranial, brachycranic, brachykephalous, broad-headed, roundheaded, short-headed

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Questions about brachycephaloid

What is brachycephaloid the alternative form of?
Brachycephaloid is the alternative form of brachycephalic.

Words near brachycephaloid in the dictionary

  1. brachycephalization
  2. brachycephalize
  3. brachycephalized
  4. brachycephalizes
  5. brachycephalizing
  6. brachycephaloid
  7. brachycephalous
  8. brachycephaly
  9. brachyceran
  10. brachycerans
  11. brachycerid

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