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adj. - Having an exceptionally large head and brain.

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  • The sons range from macrocephalous tadpoles of eight to rawboned giants of eighteen.
  • No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long.
  • She was game enough to learn Esperanto and would trap words like butterflies: in Try Anything Twice readers will find sesquipedalian, callipygian, macrocephalous.
  • Suppose that while the world's wheat fields were producing abundantly the leading nations should prohibit their people purchasing any more of that cereal for food production;...
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