Definition of brained
: having a brain of a specified kind —used in combination featherbrained
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With pollen counts around the San Francisco Bay Area right now as much as four times higher than normal, those lovely springtime blossoms have left us all a slobbering, sneezing, foggy-brained mess.
However, some experts who were not on the research team questioned whether the small-brained species was capable of such behavior and speculated that other ways to access the chambers may have existed in the past.
Our early ancestors did not simply become bigger brained and more upright over time.
The age of these fossils puts these strange, small-brained yet human-like hominins in South Africa just before the emergence of the first anatomically modern Homo sapiens.
As early as 2.6 million years ago, some small-bodied and small-brained human ancestors chipped small flakes off of larger stones to use their sharp cutting edges.
Terrence Howard’s Lucious Lyon is the closest kin to a hip-hop Trump: ruthless, selfish, reptilian-brained—a slick charmer in seduction mode where Trump projects more of a dry cakeyness.
Both her right- and left-brained skills are evident in her rooms, where lively prints and cheeky accessories meld with refined, timeless shapes and colors — all exactingly laid out to the nearest quarter-inch.
The Obama administration is poised to take up one of the more dangerous and hare-brained schemes of the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon.
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