Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a relatively long head with a cephalic index below 76.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Long-headed; pertaining to a long head: as, a dolichocephalic person or race; a dolichocephalic skull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to
brachycephalic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a person or animal Having a
head that islong from front to back (relative to its width from left to right). - noun A dolichocephalic person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75
- noun an adult with a long narrow head
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then we are left with 'dolichocephalic', which Wikipedia tells me that this is a term on the
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The Tocharians were blue-eyed dolichocephalic redheads who wore garments of plaid wool and spoke a language whose closest relative appears to be Old Gaelic.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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The Tocharians were blue-eyed dolichocephalic redheads who wore garments of plaid wool and spoke a language whose closest relative appears to be Old Gaelic.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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The Tocharians were blue-eyed dolichocephalic redheads who wore garments of plaid wool and spoke a language whose closest relative appears to be Old Gaelic.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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The Tocharians were blue-eyed dolichocephalic redheads who wore garments of plaid wool and spoke a language whose closest relative appears to be Old Gaelic.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development.
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And yet, as we have seen, it is more in this respect than any other, that human skulls vary, towards and from, the brutal type — the brain case of an average dolichocephalic European differing far less from that of a
Essays 2007
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At the southern and western end of that line there live the most dolichocephalic, prognathous, curly-haired, dark-skinned of men — the true Negroes.
Essays 2007
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In the remarkable paper read (1861) by Professor Busk before the Ethnological Society, that eminent physiologist proved that the Asiatic apes, typified by the ourang-outang, are brachycephalic, like the Mongolians amongst whom they live, or who live amongst them; whilst the gorillas and the African anthropoids are dolichocephalic as the negroes.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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“Notice the difference between the dolichocephalic and the brachycephalic in the Negroid skull,” Spencer says.
Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2003
chained_bear commented on the word dolichocephalic
Weirdnet #2. WTF?
December 25, 2008