pyknic
/ˈpɪknɪk
/adjective Anthropology
Relating to or denoting a stocky physique with a rounded body and head, thickset trunk, and a tendency to fat.One's physical or bodily shape can be classified into the pyknic type, the muscular type and the intermediate type....
- Instead of the pyknic or compact extreme, Sheldon found a round and soft one.
Origin
1920s: from Greek puknos 'thick' + -ic. The word was first used by the German psychiatrist, Ernst Kretschmer (1888–1964), in his tripartite classification of human types (the other two being asthenic and athletic).
Rhymes
- circumnavigate
- circumnavigation
- circumnavigator
- circumpolar
- circumrotate
- circumscribable
- circumscribe
- circumscriber
- circumscription
- circumsolar
- circumspect
- circumspection
- circumspectly
- circumstance
- circumstanced
- circumstances alter cases
- circumstantial
- circumstantiality
- circumstantially
- circumstantiate
- circumstantiation
- circumterrestrial
- circumvallate
- circumvallation
- circumvent