stegocephalic

English

Adjective

stegocephalic (comparative more stegocephalic, superlative most stegocephalic)

1. 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.