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Mekon

Mekon proper noun: a hyperintelligent alien being with a huge brain and otherwise atrophied body, the fictional archenemy of Dan Dare.

Proper noun

the Mekon

  1. A hyperintelligent alien being with a huge brain and otherwise atrophied body, the fictional archenemy of Dan Dare.
    • The rocks rise: massy, fissured, dusty-red; / The desert unimagined Mekon-green; / The Scottsdale panorama soothes my head, / When tortured with the brutal, shattered scene.2007, Jerry Dowlen, Lio lios: poems 1968 to 2005, page 60
    • Allometry is a Mekon theory of human cognition, after the melon-headed Mekon from Mekonta, Dan Dare's super-intelligent adversary in the sci-fi comics of the 1950s. But Preuss, and other evolution-minded neuroscientists, argue that it is time to ditch this 'bigger, better but similar' notion of...2010, Jeremy Taylor, Not a Chimp: The hunt to find the genes that make us human

Questions about Mekon

What does Mekon mean?
Mekon means a hyperintelligent alien being with a huge brain and otherwise atrophied body, the fictional archenemy of Dan Dare.
What part of speech is Mekon?
Mekon is a proper noun.

Words near Mekon in the dictionary

  1. Mekka
  2. Mekla
  3. Meknes
  4. mekometer
  5. mekometers
  6. Mekon
  7. Mekong
  8. Mekong Bobtail
  9. Mekong Bobtails
  10. Mekong River
  11. Mekonnen

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