macrocephalous

1. 1.

   having an exceptionally large head and brain

   Synonymsmacrocephalic

Questions about macrocephalous

What does macrocephalous mean?

macrocephalous means "having an exceptionally large head and brain".

How many syllables are in macrocephalous?

macrocephalous has 5 syllables: ma-cro-ce-pha-lous. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for macrocephalous?

Close synonyms include macrocephalic. 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 macrocephalous a common word?

macrocephalous 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.