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lyencephalous

lyencephalous adjective: pertaining to, or characteristic of, the obsolete group Lyencephala; having the corpus callosum absent or rudimentary.

Adjective

lyencephalous (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the obsolete group Lyencephala; having the corpus callosum absent or rudimentary.

Origin of lyencephalous

From taxonomic name Lyencephala + -ous.

Questions about lyencephalous

What does lyencephalous mean?
Lyencephalous means pertaining to, or characteristic of, the obsolete group Lyencephala; having the corpus callosum absent or rudimentary.
What part of speech is lyencephalous?
Lyencephalous is an adjective.

Words near lyencephalous in the dictionary

  1. Lyell's swift
  2. Lyell's swifts
  3. Lyell's syndrome
  4. Lyellian
  5. Lyells
  6. lyencephalous
  7. Lyerly
  8. Lyerlys
  9. lyerman
  10. lyery
  11. lyes

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