dolichocephalic
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- dolichocephalism noun
- dolichocephaly noun
- hyperdolichocephalic adjective
- hyperdolichocephaly noun
- subdolichocephalic adjective
- subdolichocephalism noun
- subdolichocephalous adjective
- subdolichocephaly noun
Etymology
Origin of dolichocephalic
Example Sentences
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On the walls hung eight profiles of hawk-faced Sherlock Holmes, a curved pipe pendent from his thin lips and a deerstalker cap pushed down on his dolichocephalic skull.
From Time Magazine Archive
The extreme length of the skull is 7.7 inches, and as its extreme breadth is not more than 5.25, its form is decidedly dolichocephalic.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The more perfect weapons must have told fearfully against the rude axes and arrows of the dolichocephalic.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)
To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
Several observers have recorded the opinion that women of dolichocephalic races are more brachycephalic, and women of brachycephalic races more dolichocephalic, than the men of the same races.
From Sex and Society by Thomas, William I.
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