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: ma-cren-ce-pha-lous. The stress falls on "ce".

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.