Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Brachycephalic; broad-headed; round-headed.
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- adjective having a brachycephalic head
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Examples
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Reptiles and amphibians recorded from the islands include 2 geckoes (Hemidactylus spp.), 2 agamid lizards including the common garden lizard or blood sucker (Calotes versicolar), the snake skink (Riopa albopunktata), common wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus), another snake, Typhlos braminus, a short-headed frog, Rana breviceps, and a larger toad, Bufo melanostictus.
Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests 2008
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Eph was mated to a golden brindle, short-headed, twenty pound bitch, having a three-quarter tail, named Tobin's Kate.
The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog Edward Axtell
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The average person in each group is short-headed, yet long-headed individuals are found in every tribe and variations just as great as this appear in the other measurements and observations.
The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition Fay-Cooper Cole 1921
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These tables show that aside from being more short-headed, this tribe differs little from the Bagobo, Bila-an, and Kulaman.
The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition Fay-Cooper Cole 1921
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In fact, it does not, for the long-headed are not long-brained, nor are the short-headed short-brained.
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If, for instance, the term is used to designate the short-headed, medium-sized type common throughout middle Europe, from east to west, it denotes something entirely different from what is meant when the name is applied to the tall, yellow-haired opponents of the Romans and the later Greeks; while, if used to designate any modern nationality, it becomes about as loose and meaningless as the term Anglo-Saxon itself.
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He wears little or nothing; is armed with a throwing club (a long stick), or perhaps later a broad-bladed, short-headed spear of a pattern peculiar to boys and young men.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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The former is called brachycephalic (short-headed), and the latter dolichocephalic
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Peters, with a short-headed miner's pick-axe, which he had used to steady himself, in his hand, was standing beside a small boulder, which loomed as a dark, purple shade under the cold, grey rain-clouds.
Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900
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The race to which they belonged was brachycephalic, or short-headed, like the pre-Semitic Sumerians of Babylonia.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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