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encephalized

encephalized is the simple past and past participle of encephalize.

Meaning of encephalize

Verb

encephalize (third-person singular simple present encephalizes, present participle encephalizing, simple past and past participle encephalized)

  1. To migrate brain function from the subcortical centres to the cortex.
  2. (intransitive) To evolve a large head or brain.
  3. (rare, transitive) To place under control of the brain.

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 encephalized

What does encephalized mean?
Encephalized means having evolved a large head.
What is encephalized the simple past and past participle of?
Encephalized is the simple past and past participle of encephalize.
What part of speech is encephalized?
Encephalized is an adjective.

Words near encephalized in the dictionary

  1. encephalization
  2. encephalization quotient
  3. encephalization quotients
  4. encephalizations
  5. encephalize
  6. encephalized
  7. encephalizes
  8. encephalizing
  9. encephalo-
  10. encephalocele
  11. encephaloceles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encephalized (page history and authors); encephalize (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.

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