beloid

comparative more beloid · superlative most beloid

1. especiallyrareanthropologyResembling an arrow, particularly in having a narrow and pointed shape; arrowlike.

   I managed a slight nod. Even that sent paroxysms of beloid agony through my neck and throat.

   2005, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Eternity Artifact, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 222

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   In norma verticalis his cranium is distinctly ovoid, almost beloid, i.e. it is not broad enough to permit us to state definitely that it is not Egyptian, although its shape is by no means a common one in the pure Egyptian.

   1987, Ahmed Osman, Stranger in the Valley of the Kings, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, Publishers, →ISBN, pages 124–125