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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or located on or near the front of the head.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the fore part of the head.
  • In Crustacea, specifically noting certain lobes or processes which form an anterior part of the wall of the head. See the quotation.
  • In ancient prosody, same as macrocephalic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) that part of the head of an invertebrate animal which is in front of the mouth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology Relating to, or forming, the front of the head.

Etymologies

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pro- +‎ cephalic

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