polycephalous en · ADJ
Etymology
From poly- + -cephalous.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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:
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Translations (4)
es multicéfalo (Translations) · fi monipäinen (Translations) · pl wielogłowy (Translations) · fr polycéphale (Translations)