Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has an abnormally large head.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
macrocephalous .
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Examples
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Physeter macrocephalus, which is the largest-known toothed whale, "said Olivier Lambert of the
European Tribune 2010
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Greenland halibut is commercially important in the North Atlantic and the Pacific, and is an important food item for deep-feeding marine mammals (e.g., narwhal and hooded seals) and sharks feeding on benthos such as the Greenland shark (Somniosus macrocephalus).
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Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) of the western Bering Sea.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009
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Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) of the western Bering Sea.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009
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The remaining indigenous mammals are all marine, comprising whales and seals, and include Southern right whale (Balaena glacialis), rare sightings of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), orca (Orcinus orca), the most common whale observed at Macquarie Island, and long fin pilot whale (Globicephala melaena), the only other whale to be seen in any numbers around Macquarie Island.
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Retrieved from the stomach of a sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus, the carcass is about 3 m long, long-bodied, and appears to have a camel-like head and a fluked tail.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Whales include migratory humpback Megaptera novaeangliae (VU) and occasional blue Balaenoptera musculus (EN), rorqual Balaenoptera physalis, sperm Physeter macrocephalus (VU), Bryde's Baleanoptera edeni, killer Orcinus orca, false killer Pseudorca crassidens, pygmy killer Feresa attenuata, Cuvier's beaked Ziphius cavirostris, beaked Mesoplodon sp., shortfin pilot Globicephala macrorhynchus and melon-headed Peponocephala electra whales.
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You said that the whalers claim the specimen was "retrieved from the stomach of a sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus," and it was "about 3 m long."
Cadborosaurus Darren Naish 2006
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One large endemic rodent, the giant mole-rat (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus), has been estimated to approach densities of 2,600 per square kilometer (km2) in the Sanetti Plateau in Bale National Park.
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Marine fish are diverse and include Pacific halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis, Pacific herring Clupea pallasii, Pacific cod Gadus macrocephalus, capelin Mallotus villosus and Pacific sandlance Ammodytes hexapterus.
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