macrencephalic

1. 1.

   having a large brain case

   Synonymsmacrencephalous

Questions about macrencephalic

What does macrencephalic mean?

macrencephalic means "having a large brain case".

How many syllables are in macrencephalic?

macrencephalic has 5 syllables and divides as ma-cren-ce-pha-lic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for macrencephalic?

Close synonyms include macrencephalous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is macrencephalic a common word?

macrencephalic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.