Brachycephalic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having a short, broad head with a cephalic index over 80.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having a head that is short from front to back (relative to its width from left to right).
  • n. A brachycephalic person.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Short-headed: applied, in ethnology, to heads whose diameter from side to side is not much less than that from front to back, their ratio being as 80 to 100, as those of the Mongolian type; and also to races or individuals having such heads: opposed to dolichocephalic.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an adult with a short broad head
  • adj. having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80
    • Equivalent
    roundheaded    short-headed    broad-headed    bullet-headed    brachycephalous   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    grownup    adult   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dolichocephalic    longheaded    pentatonic    benevolent-looking    unfastidious   
     
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