dolicho-

1. a combining form meaning “long” or “narrow”.

   dolichocephalic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dolicho-¹

< Greek, combining form of dolichós

Example Sentences

Thus the Minnetaris are highly dolicho; the Poncas and Osages sub-brachy; the Algonquians variable, while the Siouans oscillate widely round a mesaticephalous mean.

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To the true Persians of the west, as well as to the kindred Afghans in the east, both of dolicho type, the term is rarely applied.

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The astonishing prevalence everywhere of the moderately dolicho heads is at once explained by the absence of brachy immigrants except in the Bronze period, and these could do no more than raise the cephalic index from about 70 or 72 to the present mean of about 78.

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Thus he finds that in the brachy districts the urban population is less brachy than the rural, while in the dolicho districts the towns are more brachy than the plains.

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The most typical cases both of brachy and dolicho deformation are from the Cerro de las Palmas graves in south-west Mexico.

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