tetracephalous
tetracephalous adjective: having four heads.
Adjective
tetracephalous (not comparable)
- Having four heads.
- After the squabbling children of the old company president could not decide who ought to succeed her, they settled on an uneasy tetracephalous leadership structure in which they all shared executive duties equally.
- But this idea of an abstract deity, existing independently of the three persons, was not accepted, and he was reproached with teaching the existence of four Gods. Peter the Lombard, at the end of his Sentences and Distinctions, found himself face to face with the same "tetracephalous monster," and...1870, Albert Réville, translated by Ann Swane, History of the Doctrine of the Deity of Jesus Christ, London: Williams and Norgate, page 106
- Synonyms:
- quadricephalous
Synonyms of tetracephalous
Origin of tetracephalous
From tetra- + -cephalous.
Questions about tetracephalous
- What does tetracephalous mean?
- Tetracephalous means having four heads.
- What part of speech is tetracephalous?
- Tetracephalous is an adjective.
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