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bird-headed

bird-headed adjective: having a bird’s head, especially of a mythological figure.

Adjective

bird-headed (not comparable)

  1. Having a bird’s head, especially of a mythological figure.
    • a bird-headed statue
    • The ithyphallic condition of the bird-headed man, associated as he is with a magical staff with a bird on top of it, can then be seen in a context in which precisely those images do have meaning.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 115
  2. (historical) Having a birth defect (Seckel syndrome) resulting in a head with a large nose, weakly developed chin, receding brow, and small cranial cavity.

Questions about bird-headed

What does bird-headed mean?
Bird-headed means having a bird’s head, especially of a mythological figure.
What part of speech is bird-headed?
Bird-headed is an adjective.

Words near bird-headed in the dictionary

  1. bird-dogging
  2. bird-dogs
  3. bird-eyed
  4. bird-feeder
  5. bird-feeders
  6. bird-headed
  7. bird-hipped
  8. bird-in-a-bush
  9. bird-like
  10. bird-lime
  11. bird-loving

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