cymatotrichous

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English

Adjective

cymatotrichous (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of cymotrichous
    • 1940, Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, XXXIX, page 82:
      The Kentja race of Dravido-Australian origin is slender of body and has a long face with a protruding profil, the hair is cymatotrichous, the colour of the skin grows darker towards the feet, the piliation of the body is stronger than in the Malella race; the Kentja race is well represented in Madura.
    • 1946, Boletin de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, XLIV, page 297:
      The Antarides are brown, cymatotrichous, dolicho-mesocephalic, with rather high heads, leptomesoprosopic, mesoleptorrhinous, and medium statured in comparison to the other populations of the Sunda Arch, so mostly taller than the Palae Mongolids.
    • 1968, Indera P. Singh, M.K. Bhasin, Anthropometry, page 64:
      Wavy — (Cymatotrichous). Flat Waved or Broad Waved or Narrow Waved or Curly.