Having a short, broad skull; an alternative adjectival form meaning brachycephalic.
From Greek brachys (short) + kephalē (head) + -ous (English adjectival suffix), a variant formation of brachycephalic.
The existence of both 'brachycephalic' and 'brachycephalous' is basically academic redundancy—they mean identical things but came from different scholarly traditions competing to name the same concept.
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