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quadricephalous

quadricephalous adjective: having four heads.

Adjective

quadricephalous (not comparable)

  1. Having four heads.
    • After decapitating the Hydra twice, I found myself face to faces with a quadricephalous beast.
    • "[We] were invited to his school room to demonstrate the foundation of Electic, Elective, Electric, Elliptic Shorthand, and gained an adherent–the principal–who began at once the study of the quadricephalous system and has since remained a staunch advocate of its claims."1899 February 1, “Editorial Miscellany”, in Bulletin of Eclectic Shorthand, volume 2, number 2, page 10
    Synonyms:
    tetracephalous

Examples of quadricephalous in a sentence

  • "... neither the four terminal heads nor the three-sided figure at the base need be considered as representations of a quadricephalous and of a tricephalous god."1946, R. Pettazzoni, “The Pagan Origins of the Three-Headed Representation of the Christian Trinity”, in Journal of the Warburg and...
  • As a result, the entity acquired a quadricephalous moniker–DALAROUTA."2010, Paul Henley, The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 330:

Synonyms of quadricephalous

Origin of quadricephalous

From quadri- + -cephalous.

Questions about quadricephalous

What does quadricephalous mean?
Quadricephalous means having four heads.
How do you use quadricephalous in a sentence?
"... neither the four terminal heads nor the three-sided figure at the base need be considered as representations of a quadricephalous and of a tricephalous god."
What part of speech is quadricephalous?
Quadricephalous is an adjective.

Words near quadricephalous in the dictionary

  1. quadricentenarians
  2. quadricentennial
  3. quadricentennials
  4. quadricentesimal
  5. quadricep
  6. quadricephalous
  7. quadriceps
  8. quadriceps femores
  9. quadriceps femoris
  10. quadriceps tendon
  11. quadriceps tendons

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