macrencephalous

1. 1.

   having a large brain case

   Synonymsmacrencephalic

Questions about macrencephalous

What does macrencephalous mean?

macrencephalous means "having a large brain case".

How many syllables are in macrencephalous?

macrencephalous has 5 syllables and divides as ma-cren-ce-pha-lous 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 macrencephalous?

Close synonyms include macrencephalic. 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 macrencephalous a common word?

macrencephalous 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.