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PRONUNCIATION OF BRACHYCEPHALOUS

brachycephalous  [ˌbrækɪˈsɛfələs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BRACHYCEPHALOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Brachycephalous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BRACHYCEPHALOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

brachycephalous

Cephalic index

The cephalic index or cranial index is the ratio of the maximum width of the head of an organism multiplied by 100 divided by its maximum length. Cephalic index The index was widely used by anthropologists in the early 20th century to categorize human populations, and by Carleton S. Coon in the 1960s. Today it is mainly used to describe individuals' appearances and for estimating the age of fetuses for legal and obstetrical reasons. The index is also used to categorize animals, especially dogs and cats.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BRACHYCEPHALOUS


acephalous
əˈsɛfələs
androcephalous
ˌændrəʊˈsɛfələs
autocephalous
ˌɔːtəʊˈsɛfələs
bicephalous
baɪˈsɛfələs
Bucephalus
bjuːˈsɛfələs
dicephalous
daɪˈsɛfələs
dolichocephalous
ˌdɒlɪkəʊˈsɛfələs
encephalous
ɛnˈsɛfələs
hydrocephalus
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈsɛfələs
leptocephalous
ˌlɛptəʊˈsɛfələs
leptocephalus
ˌlɛptəʊˈsɛfələs
mesaticephalous
ˌmɛsətɪˈsɛfələs
mesocephalous
ˌmɛsəʊˈsɛfələs
microcephalous
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈsɛfələs
orthocephalous
ˌɔːθəʊˈsɛfələs
oxycephalous
ˌɒksɪˈsɛfələs
platycephalous
ˌplætɪˈsɛfələs
rhizocephalous
ˌraɪzəʊˈsɛfələs
scaphocephalous
ˌskæfəʊˈsɛfələs
stegocephalous
ˌstɛɡəʊˈsɛfələs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BRACHYCEPHALOUS

brachyaxis
brachycephal
brachycephalic
brachycephalism
brachycephaly
brachycerous
brachydactyl
brachydactylic
brachydactylism
brachydactylous
brachydactyly
brachydiagonal
brachydome
brachygraphy
brachylogies
brachylogous
brachylogy
brachyodont
brachypinakoid
brachyprism

WORDS THAT END LIKE BRACHYCEPHALOUS

anomalous
antipetalous
antisepalous
apetalous
bipetalous
dialypetalous
dipetalous
disepalous
episepalous
jealous
macrocephalous
monopetalous
monosepalous
octopetalous
overzealous
ridiculous
scandalous
synsepalous
tripetalous
unzealous
zealous

Synonyms and antonyms of brachycephalous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «brachycephalous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BRACHYCEPHALOUS

Find out the translation of brachycephalous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of brachycephalous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «brachycephalous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

brachycephalous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

brachycephalous
570 millions of speakers

English

brachycephalous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

brachycephalous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قصير الرأس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

brachycephalous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

braquicéfalos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

brachycephalous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

brachycéphales
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Brachycephalous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

brachycephalous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

brachycephalous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

brachycephalous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Brachycephalous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

brachycephalous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

brachycephalous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ब्राच्यसेफीलिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

brachycephalous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

brachycephalous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

brachycephalous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

brachycephalous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

brachycephalous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

brachycephalous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

brachycephalous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

brachycephalous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

brachycephalous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of brachycephalous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BRACHYCEPHALOUS»

The term «brachycephalous» is used very little and occupies the 155.788 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BRACHYCEPHALOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «brachycephalous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «brachycephalous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about brachycephalous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRACHYCEPHALOUS»

Discover the use of brachycephalous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to brachycephalous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Foreign Quarterly Review
in the long barrows, in whose lowest and earliest deposits the long skulls occur, they are found in the round barrows, the use of which brachycephalous races— the vanguard, perhaps, of the long-headed Celts, appear to have introduced.
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The Westminster Review
lation in the south-western division of France. Was there no connexion between the Iberians and the brachycephalous indigenes which would render it probable that the Iberians were the historical representatives of these pre-Celtic races ?
3
Memoirs read before the Anthropological Society of London
The table of measurements shows an average relative breadth such as might have been expected, with a mixture of skulls of dolichocephalous and brachycephalous proportions in the same series. The cephalic index stands at " 78 for the ...
4
Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London
List of members appended to each volume.
Anthropological Society of London, 1865
5
Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in ...
Brachycephalous: 83 Brachycephalous: 84 Mesaticephalous: 79 a. Dolichocephalous:74 b.Brachycephalous: 83 Jaws Prognathous: 60 Mesognathous: 68 Mesognathous: 72 Orthognathous: 76 Cheek bone Small, moderately retreating ...
Paul Spickard, 2010
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Ethnology: 1945 - 1975
Brachycephalous; 83 Orthognathous ; 76 Small; unmarked b. Black; Small ( microdont) b. Pale a. Blue; Ideal American Tvfe Very long, coarse, black, lank, nearly round in section ; beardless Large, bridged or aquiline, mesorrhine ; 50 Small, ...
Aino Ränk, 1975
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Ethnology: Fundamental Ethnical Problems; The Primary ...
IDEAL MONGOL TYPE Coarse, black, lustreless, lank, round in transverse section, beardless, but moustache com< HIGH Yellowish Brachycephalous ; 84 Mesognathous Prominent laterally Very small, mesorrhine; 52 Small, black, oblique, ...
A. H. Keane, 2011
8
England Before the Norman Conquest
The newcomers were two races of a new physical type, the Brachycephalous or round-headed peoples, who were about to introduce the bronze age, though the first few traces found of them in North-\Vestern Europe Show them armed with ...
Charles Oman
9
Report of the Board of Regents
We do not possess as yet any known conclusive series of observations by means of which it can be demonstrated that from dolicho- cephalous families there have been developed brachycephalous individuals, such as we find among ...
10
Polish Encyclopaedia ...
There we can distinguish several anthropological provinces although the majority of the population speak Ruthenian dialects. We have two brachycephalous provinces of East Galicia and the steppes of the South, separated by the Volhynian ...

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