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Meaning of "microcephalous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MICROCEPHALOUS

microcephalous  [ˌmaɪkrəʊˈsɛfələs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MICROCEPHALOUS

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

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MICROCEPHALOUS


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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MICROCEPHALOUS

microcap
microcapsule
microcar
microcard
microcassette
microcelebrities
microcelebrity
microcephal
microcephalic
microcephaly
microchemical
microchemistry
microchip
microchipped
microchipping
microcircuit
microcircuitry
microclimate
microclimatic
microclimatically

WORDS THAT END LIKE MICROCEPHALOUS

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 microcephalous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «microcephalous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MICROCEPHALOUS

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

Translator English - Chinese

microcephalous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

microcéfalo
570 millions of speakers

English

microcephalous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

microcephalous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

microcephalous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

microcephalous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

microcephalous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অতিক্ষুদ্রশির
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

microcephalous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Microcephalous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mikrocephalen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

microcephalous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

microcephalous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Microcephalous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

microcephalous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

microcephalous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मायक्रोसेफीलिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mikrosefal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

microcefali
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

microcephalous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

microcephalous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

microcephalous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

microcephalous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

microcephalous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

microcephalous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

microcephalous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of microcephalous

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROCEPHALOUS»

The term «microcephalous» is normally little used and occupies the 145.463 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROCEPHALOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «microcephalous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «microcephalous» 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 microcephalous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MICROCEPHALOUS»

Discover the use of microcephalous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to microcephalous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Anthropological Review
I have, in the engraved brains of a microcephalous and a chimpanzee, measured two distances on the left side ; the first from the apex of the brain to the vertical fissure which separates the posterior lobe, the second from the above fissure to ...
‎1867
2
Vignaud pamphlets: The brain
This author refers to the above table as affording a proof that the microcephalous possesses an occipital lobe as large as that of the ape. After quoting some remarks of my late father on the difference between the simian and the microcephalic ...
‎1868
3
Eugène Dubois and the Ape-Man from Java: The History of the ...
The skull was probably that of a microcephalous idiot. The anatomist Daniel J. Cunningham discussed the finds more fully in a lecture given on 23 January 1895 to the Royal Dublin Society.15 Cunningham first dealt with the three fossils.
Bert Theunissen, 1989
4
The G. K. Chesterton Collection: [34 Books]
A man with a bumpy head may say tome (as akindof New Yeargreeting), “Fools have microcephalous skulls,” or what not. To which I shall reply, “In order to be certain of that, you must be a good judge both of the physical and of the mental fact.
G. K. Chesterton, Catholic Way Publishing, 2014
5
Student Vocabulary Companion
93 Micro ammeter Microanalysis Microcassette Word List Microcephalous Microeconomic Microphobia Microchemistry Microgram Microscope Microculture Micromap Microvolt Definitions Microeconomic (miikrohEHkuhnomihk) Of or relating to ...
Okyere Bonna, 2009
6
The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language
In 1867, Darwin had received from Vogt a copy of his massive Memoire sur les microcephales ou hommes-singes, summarizing its contents in a letter. Of the brains of microcephalous idiots, Vogt wrote: "I arrive at the conclusion that [their] ...
Gregory Radick, 2007
7
Delphi Complete Works of G. K. Chesterton (Illustrated)
Itisnot enough that youshould knowa microcephalous skull when you see it.Itis also necessary thatyou should know a fool when youseehim; and Ihave a suspicion thatyoudo not knowa fool whenyouseehim, even after the mostlifelongand ...
G. K. Chesterton, 2013
8
Sanitary memoirs of the war of the rebellion v 2
... holds good for the dwarves; since their heads, though relatively so much larger , are actually smaller than usual ; while probably the most striking feature of the abnormality of the two other cases consists in their microcephalous character.
9
The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
Huxley is discussing “oceanic hydrozoa” (which are not, he says, “'arrested developments' of higher organisms”). Darwin is discussing what he calls “ microcephalous idiots,” who illustrate “a difference between arrested development and ar- ...
Kathryn Bond Stockton, 2009
10
Pocket Medical Dictionary
A small calory. See Calory. Microcar'dia. Congenital smallness of the heart Microcephalic, mi-kro-sef-al' -ik. See Microcephalous. Microcephalism, mi-kro-sef' -al-iztn. See Microcephaly. Microcephalous, mi-kro-sef-al-us. Having a small head.
B. Jain Publishers Staff, 1999

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