Word.ws English Dictionary

macropygous

macropygous adjective: having the pygidium considerably larger than the cephalon.

Adjective

macropygous (comparative more macropygous, superlative most macropygous)

  1. Having the pygidium considerably larger than the cephalon.

Forms of macropygous

comparativemore macropygous
superlativemost macropygous

Questions about macropygous

What does macropygous mean?
Macropygous means having the pygidium considerably larger than the cephalon.
What part of speech is macropygous?
Macropygous is an adjective.

Words near macropygous in the dictionary

  1. macroptyrous
  2. macropulse
  3. macropulses
  4. macropuncture
  5. macropunctures
  6. macropygous
  7. macropyramid
  8. macropyramids
  9. macroradical
  10. macroradicals
  11. macroramphosid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: macropygous (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: “macropygous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/macropygous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.