Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, having a long or large head.
- In botany, having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo consolidated, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
large head . - adjective Having the
cotyledons of adicotyledonous embryo confluent , and forming a large mass compared with the rest of thebody .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an exceptionally large head and brain
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Examples
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No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long.
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The sons range from macrocephalous tadpoles of eight to rawboned giants of eighteen.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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She was game enough to learn Esperanto and would trap words like butterflies: in Try Anything Twice readers will find sesquipedalian, callipygian, macrocephalous.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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Suppose that while the world's wheat fields were producing abundantly the leading nations should prohibit their people purchasing any more of that cereal for food production; would any macrocephalous donkey ascribe the decline in the price of wheat to "the immutable law of supply and demand?"
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No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866
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