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phrenological

phrenological adjective: pertaining to phrenology.

Adjective

phrenological (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to phrenology.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      On his birthday he received a beautiful phrenological head, all marked with figures to the thorax and painted blue. This was an attention of the clerk's.

Words formed from phrenological

Questions about phrenological

What does phrenological mean?
Phrenological means pertaining to phrenology.
What part of speech is phrenological?
Phrenological is an adjective.

Words near phrenological in the dictionary

  1. phrenographs
  2. phrenography
  3. phrenologer
  4. phrenologers
  5. phrenologic
  6. phrenological
  7. phrenologically
  8. phrenologies
  9. phrenologise
  10. phrenologist
  11. phrenologists

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