Macrocephalic

Quick meaning: Macrocephalic is an adjective meaning Having an abnormally large or elongated head.

Meaning

Having an abnormally large or elongated head.

More Meanings

1. (geography) Characterized by a disproportionate concentration of population and activities in a single centre, to the detriment of other areas.

Example Sentences

Several developing countries are characterized by rapid urbanization, macrocephalic urban systems, high urban densities and various socio economic and environmental problems.

This intimation, breaking through his resistances, evoked first the dread of an abnormal child, prematurely wise, macrocephalic, with dreadful tentacular hands.... So his essential humanity presented the thing.

The males of P. portalis [bees] are strikingly dimorphic: fewer than 50% of them are “normal” winged males that mate with females at flowers, and the remainder are large, flightless, macrocephalic fighters that remain in the natal nest, where they fight to the death with competitors.

In 1947, the geographer Jean-François Gravier published a book that became an instant sensation: Paris et le désert français. Gravier argued that France was becoming a seriously deformed nation, a macrocephalic invalid: Paris, the megalopolis, was sucking all the lifeblood from the provinces, leading to a dangerous imbalance between center and periphery.

Synonyms for macrocephalic

Depending on context, synonyms include macrocephalous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include macrocephalous, macrophallic, hypercolossal, behemothian, headhigh, large-sized.

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