small-headedadj.
/ˌsmɔːlˈhɛdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈˌsmɔlˈˌhɛdᵻd/, /ˈˌsmɑlˈˌhɛdᵻd/ Having a small head.Frequently in the names of animals and plants.
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headedOE
cop-headed1519
small-headedc1540
jolt-headed1552
chuff-headed1563
ass-headed1584
two-headed1596
golden-headed1598
hard-headed1601
big-headed1614
bicipitous1646
buffle-headed1654
female-headed1655
heavy-headed1684
bullet-headed1699
jolter-headed1748
pinheaded1771
pigheaded1774
thin-headed1804
roundhead1842
bulbous-headed1860
blob-headed1865
occipital1873
fat-headed1883
mesopic1885
peanut-headed1906
dome-headed1910
c1540 J. Gostwick in Publ. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. (1955) 36 43 Let them [sc. colts] be well spread behind of the buttockes & smalle heded.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Saupe, a small-headed,..vnwholesome sea~fish.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 113 The great, thick, small-headed Testudo.
1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 13 A tall small-headed tree.
1812 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VI. 62 Small-headed Flycatcher, Muscicapa minuta.
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 221 Pleuronectes microcephalus Small-headed Dab.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 320 A tall, large-bodied, small-headed man.
1924 Boys' Life Mar. 33 This small headed and greatly elongated lizard [sc. the brontosaurus] was the largest of any of the dinosaurs.
1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xvii. 159 The thick small-headed shape of him would be clinging to the bars, gorilla-like.
1962 New Scientist 22 Mar. 672/1 The small-headed but long-necked Elasmosaurs and the large-headed, bull-necked Pliosaurs must have had considerable hydrostatic problems.
2000 Nature Conservancy Mar. 26/3 The expanded natural area will protect a large population of small-headed pipewort.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.c1540