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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

polycephalous en · ADJ

Etymology

From poly- + -cephalous.

Meanings

  1. (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:

Coordinates

monocephalous

Translations (4)

es multicéfalo (Translations) · fi monipäinen (Translations) · pl wielogłowy (Translations) · fr polycéphale (Translations)