Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An animal or living being supposed to be headless; one of the Acephali.
- Headless; without a head or leader.
- noun One of the Acephala.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Acephala.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One of the
Acephala .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (akephalos, "headless"), from ἀ- (a-, "not") + κεφαλή (kephalē, "head"). Compare French acéphale, Late Latin acephalus.
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