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Adjective
stegocephalic (comparative more stegocephalic, superlative most stegocephalic)
- Alternative form of stegocephalous
1891 April, J. William Dawson, “I.—On New Specimens of Dendrepeton Acadianum, with Remarks on other Carboniferous Amphibians”, in Geological Magazine, volume 8, number 4:In Hylonomus this becomes strengthened by an apparently true stegocephalic skull-cover, as well as by the thick comb-like develop- ment of teeth in the roof of the mouth, and the presence of a ventral shield of bony scales.
1980 Winter, Guy Davenport, “The Death of Picasso: Het Erewhonisch Schetsboek: Germinal, Floréal, Prairial 1973”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 2, number 1:One munches an apple, one buzzes his lips like a hornet, the third twiddles the radical of his stegocephalic posthon.
1993 December, W Schad, “Heterochronical patterns of evolution in the transitional stages of vertebrate classes”, in Acta biotheoretica, volume 41, number 4:It is immediately obvious that the surface structure and the side-line channels of the cranial surface are strikingly stegocephalic.