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brachycephalic
[ brak-ee-suh-fal-ik ]
adjective
- short-headed; having a cephalic index of 81.0–85.4.
brachycephalic
/ ˌbrækɪsɪˈfælɪk /
adjective
- having a head nearly as broad from side to side as from front to back, esp one with a cephalic index over 80
noun
- an individual with such a head
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Derived Forms
- ˌbrachyˈcephaly, noun
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Other Words From
- brach·y·ceph·a·ly [brak-ee-, sef, -, uh, -lee], brachy·cepha·lism noun
- hyper·brachy·ce·phalic adjective
- hyper·brachy·cepha·ly noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of brachycephalic1
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Example Sentences
Brachycephalic and dolichocephalic people nearly equal in number.
There were certainly several if not many waves of brachycephalic migrations into Europe, of which this was the first.
The few human remains from the earliest lake-dwellings are all brachycephalic—short-heads.
The skull shape of the Lombards, says Flinders Petrie, changed from dolichocephalic to brachycephalic in a few hundred years.
A few equally mystical Greek words, brachycephalic and dolichocephalic, are the watchwords of the crusades of to-day.
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