Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a head like that of a dog; cynocephalous: specifically applied to sundry baboons, also called
dog-faced ; - to a South American boa, Xiphosoma caninum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.
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Examples
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It was in a comment at ShukerNature that I read about a dog-headed image of St. Christopher and did a quick Google search to come up with the image above different than the image mentioned in the comment!
Deities of the Canine Kind Jan 2009
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By the first century AD, worship of Hermanubis had spread beyond Rome-ruled Egypt, reaching Rome itself - where Germanic troops recruited into the Roman armies would have seen statues of this canine god, as well as his dog-headed priests.
Deities of the Canine Kind Jan 2009
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Image: Traditional eastern depiction of a dog-headed St. Christopher: an icon from the Byzantine Museum, Athens.
Deities of the Canine Kind Jan 2009
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Originally a warrior god, Upuaut is variously represented as a dog-headed, jackal-headed, or even wolf-headed man who leads the funeral cortege at the festivals of Osiris.
Deities of the Canine Kind Jan 2009
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THE KYNOKEPHALOI or Cynocephali were an Indian and African tribe of dog-headed men.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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How can I challenge his facts when his facts are told to him by the dog-headed boys from Mars?
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THE KYNOKEPHALOI or Cynocephali were an Indian and African tribe of dog-headed men.
I'm a bad blogger! 2008
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One feels the author speaking through the beleaguered Solanka in terror of the Erinnyes — the Furies of ancient Athens, "serpent-haired, dog-headed, bat-winged" — hounding him for the remainder of his life.
In the Emperor's Dream House Oates, Joyce Carol 2008
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The name Kynokephalos means dog-headed, from "kuôn," a dog, and "kephalos," head.
I'm a bad blogger! 2008
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The name Kynokephalos means dog-headed, from "kuôn," a dog, and "kephalos," head.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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