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bicephalous

[ bahy-sef-uh-luhs ]

adjective

Botany, Zoology.
  1. having two heads.


bicephalous

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adjective

  1. biology having two heads
  2. crescent-shaped
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bicephalous1

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