brained
having a particular type of brain (used in combination): small-brained dinosaurs.
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At least one group of jumping spider species plans out strategic attacks involving elaborate detours to reach a target — the kind of clever hunting behavior typically ascribed to large-brained mammals like actual tigers.
Jumping spiders’ remarkable senses capture a world beyond our perception | Betsy Mason | October 25, 2021 | Science NewsThe big-brained Erectus soon gave rise to even larger-brained species.
Would We Still See Ourselves as ‘Human’ if Other Hominin Species Hadn’t Gone Extinct? | Nicholas R. Longrich | October 21, 2021 | Singularity HubAll human lineages were getting bigger-brained over the last few million years, not just the lineage that led up to us.
The Human Family Tree, It Turns Out, Is Complicated - Issue 102: Hidden Truths | Razib Khan | June 30, 2021 | NautilusAs brains got bigger, babies needed more, and their ever-larger-brained parents had more creativity to fulfill those needs.
Who Took Care Of The First Baby? | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | May 11, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightStocky, big-brained hominids such as Neandertals needed chest cavities arranged in this way from birth to accommodate lungs large enough to meet their energy needs, the scientists contend October 7 in Science Advances.
Neandertal babies had stocky chests like their parents | Bruce Bower | October 7, 2020 | Science News
McConnell can presumably fob this off on his Beltway-brained consultants.
So Murdoch, cold-blooded and lizard-brained, knows he must preserve his own position while somehow ensuring a peaceful succession.
See a timeline of their hare-brained schemes—including sticking credit cards to their foreheads—and assorted misdemeanors.
He’s just finished shooting a remake of Absolutely Fabulous (that hare-brained, alcoholic ‘90s Britcom).
Arrested Development Meets Saturday Night Live | Isabel Wilkinson | April 19, 2009 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Republican Party seems to have been brained by a heavy cloud followed by an equally heavy sky-blue shape.
It was no brash idea, no hare-brained impulse concocted in one's cups, perhaps.
The bishop and his episcopals can not be hair-brained enough to seek to restore old conditions and assail our liberty.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueDid I not hear that hare-brained youngster declare this evening that money was made round that it might roll.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket | Honore de Balzac“He is crack-brained, and calls himself the King,” she murmured.
The Proud Prince | Justin Huntly McCarthyThe same act which would proclaim their own treachery would deliver into our hands this hare-brained adventurer.
Tony Butler | Charles James Lever
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