bicephalous

American

[bahy-sef-uh-luhs] / baɪˈsɛf ə ləs /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

having two heads.

bicephalous British

/ baɪˈsɛfələs /

adjective

biology having two heads
crescent-shaped

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Etymology

Origin of bicephalous

First recorded in 1795–1805; bi- ¹ + -cephalous

Example Sentences

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Among them, pleasingly diversified, you discover murderers’ heads, parricides’ busts in plaster, bicephalous babies, and shapeless monsters with two rows of teeth.

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For two houses with like minds are stronger than one that is bicephalous.

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The sentence of a German geographer recurred to him: "The German is bicephalous; with one head he dreams and poetizes while with the other he thinks and executes."

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