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polycephalous

polycephalous adjective: many-headed.

Adjective

polycephalous (not comparable)

  1. many-headed
    • Hercules can only have one head, the sole seat of consciousness that makes him a human individual, while the Hydra, a polycephalous organism capable of exponentially multiplying its heads, embodies a sort of metaphysical horror[...]2022, Laura Tripaldi, “A Many-Headed Thing”, in Parallel Minds, Urbanomic Media LTD, page 35

Origin of polycephalous

From poly- + -cephalous.

Questions about polycephalous

What does polycephalous mean?
Polycephalous means many-headed.
What part of speech is polycephalous?
Polycephalous is an adjective.

Words near polycephalous in the dictionary

  1. polycentrist
  2. polycentrists
  3. polycentropodid
  4. polycentropodids
  5. polycephalic
  6. polycephalous
  7. polycephaly
  8. polycerate
  9. polyceratid
  10. polyceratids
  11. polycerid

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