ACEPHALOUS


Meaning of ACEPHALOUS in English

adj. 1 headless. 2 having no chief. 3 Zool. having no part of the body specially organized as a head. 4 Bot. with a head aborted or cut off. 5 Prosody lacking a syllable or syllables in the first foot.

[ med.L acephalus f. Gk akephalos headless (as A-(1), kephale head) ]

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