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pycnic

pycnic is the alternative form of pyknic.

Meaning of pyknic

Adjective

pyknic (comparative more pyknic, superlative most pyknic)

  1. short and stout; endomorphic
    • For example, in the demographic profile published by the Direktorat Bina Masyarakat Terasing (1990), the surveyed populations are each typologized according to a seemingly scientific code relating to such characteristics as: F Bodily characteristics (F₁ Generally athletic, tall, upstanding / F₂...2002 August 26, Geoffrey Benjamin, “On Being Tribal in the Malay World”, in Geoffrey Benjamin, Cynthia Chou, editors, Tribal Communities in the Malay World: Historical, Cultural and Social...

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Forms of pycnic

Adjective
comparativemore pycnic
superlativemost pycnic
Noun
pluralpycnics

Questions about pycnic

What is pycnic the alternative form of?
Pycnic is the alternative form of pyknic.

Words near pycnic in the dictionary

  1. Pybuses
  2. pycna
  3. pycnaspidean
  4. pycnia
  5. pycnial
  6. pycnic
  7. pycnics
  8. pycnid
  9. pycnide
  10. pycnides
  11. pycnidia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pycnic (page history and authors); pyknic (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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