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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Narrow, as a skull; having a narrow skull; characterized by or exhibiting leptocephaly.
  • In ichthyology, retaining a long, narrow skull, as certain flat-fishes whose skull does not undergo the special modification characteristic of the pleuronectids; leptocephaloid.

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