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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The dorsal region of the cerebral cortex, especially large in higher mammals and the most recently evolved part of the brain. Also called neopallium.

Wiktionary

  1. n. neuroanatomy The top layer of the cerebral hemispheres in the brain of mammals; part of cerebral cortex.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The cortical part of the neencephalon; the most recently evolved part of the cerebral cortex of the brain of higher animals, and the site of most of the higher brain functions; called also neopallium.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the cortical part of the neencephalon

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