macrocephalous

English

Etymology

macro- +‎ -cephalous

Adjective

macrocephalous (comparative more macrocephalous, superlative most macrocephalous)

  1. Having a large head.
  2. Having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for macrocephalous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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