megalo-, megal-, -megalia, -megaly

An excessively large tongue.

1. An unreasonable delusionary conviction of one’s own extreme greatness, goodness, or power; the ideas in megalomania are known as delusions of grandeur and are generally considered a part of schizophrenia or other psychoses.
2. Loosely, the term is also used to describe a lopsided attachment or passion for, or for doing, things on a grand scale, or, as a tendency to wild exaggeration or conceit, with, of course, no implications of insanity.
3. A type of delusion in which the individual considers himself/herself possessed of greatness. He/She believes her/himself to be Christ, God, Napoleon, etc., or everyone and everything, including a lawyer, physician, clergyman, merchant, prince, top athlete in all divisions of sport, etc.
4. A morbid verbalized over evaluation of oneself or of some aspect of oneself.

An unreasonable distrust of large objects.

The perception of objects as being larger than they are.

Largest of the planktonic organisms, typically greater than 10 mm in diameter.

1. Used (frequently with a capital letter) as a designation of a very large city or its way of life.
2. The practice of building large cities.
3. A region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas in sufficient proximity to be considered a single urban complex.

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
2. An inhabitant of a megalopolis.

This “great lizard” is from Middle and Late Jurassic period onward and found in Europe and in other regions of the world.