Word.ws English Dictionary

encephalised

encephalised is the simple past and past participle of encephalise.

encephalised is the alternative form of encephalized.

Meaning of encephalized

Adjective

encephalized (not comparable)

  1. Having evolved a large head
    • Not surprisingly, these animals are relatively encephalized and have RP values that have the highest positive residuals and are near anthropoid regression lines in repeated analyses (Figs 3 and 4 ).2015 August 13, “Lemur Biorhythms and Life History Evolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about encephalised

What is encephalised the simple past and past participle of?
Encephalised is the simple past and past participle of encephalise.

Words near encephalised in the dictionary

  1. encephalic
  2. encephalin
  3. encephalins
  4. encephalisation
  5. encephalise
  6. encephalised
  7. encephalises
  8. encephalising
  9. encephalitic
  10. encephalitides
  11. encephalitis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: encephalised (page history and authors); encephalized (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “encephalised.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/encephalised. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.