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encephala

encephala is the plural of encephalon.

encephala is the plural of encephalum.

Meaning of encephalon

Noun

encephalon (plural encephalons or encephala)

  1. The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within the skull and continuous with the spinal cord; synonym of brain.
    • Meronyms: prosencephalon, telencephalon, diencephalon; mesencephalon; rhombencephalon, metencephalon, myelencephalon

Meaning of encephalum

Noun

encephalum (plural encephala)

  1. The brain of an insect

Questions about encephala

What is encephala the plural of?
Encephala is the plural of encephalon.

Words near encephala in the dictionary

  1. encelias
  2. encenia
  3. encenillo
  4. encenillos
  5. encephal-
  6. encephala
  7. encephalalgia
  8. encephalatogenic
  9. encephalatrophic
  10. encephalatrophy
  11. encephalectomies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encephala (page history and authors); encephalon (page history and authors); encephalum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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