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LONG-HEADED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does long-headed mean?
• LONG-HEADED (adjective)
The adjective LONG-HEADED has 1 sense:
1. having a dolichocephalic head
Familiarity information: LONG-HEADED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a dolichocephalic head
Similar:
dolichocephalic; dolichocranial; dolichocranic (having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75)
Context examples
Some people trifled with her as a mere oddity, he said; but she was as shrewdly and sharply observant as anyone he knew, and as long-headed as she was short-armed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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