dolichocephalic
nounEtymology From dolicho- + cephalic, hence literally roughly “long-headed”.
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A dolichocephalic person.
- Related terms
- dolichocephaly, dolichocephalism, dolichocephalous
dolichocephalic
adjEtymology From dolicho- + cephalic, hence literally roughly “long-headed”.
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Of a person or animal Having a head that is long from front to back (relative to its width from left to right).
- Just how cosmopolitan the town was is clear from the fact that two different races are found buried in the graves: the dolichocephalic Eurafrican, and the brachycephalic Proto-Mediterranean.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 153:
- Derived terms
- subdolichocephalic, ultradolichocephalic