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brachykephalic

brachykephalic 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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Forms of brachykephalic

comparativemore brachykephalic
superlativemost brachykephalic

Questions about brachykephalic

What is brachykephalic the alternative form of?
Brachykephalic is the alternative form of brachycephalic.

Words near brachykephalic in the dictionary

  1. brachygraphic
  2. brachygraphical
  3. brachygraphies
  4. brachygraphy
  5. brachyiliac
  6. brachykephalic
  7. brachylaimiasis
  8. brachylaimid
  9. brachylaimids
  10. brachylogy
  11. brachylophosaurin

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