- Zool. having no part of the body differentiated as the head
- having no leader
Origin of acephalous
Late Latin acephalus from Classical Greek akephalos from a-, without + kephal?, head: see cephalicacephalous
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acephalous
adjective
- Biology Headless or lacking a clearly defined head: acephalous worms.
- Having no leader.
Origin of acephalous
From Medieval Latin acephalus from Greek akephalos a- without ; see a- 1. kephalē head ; see -cephalous .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(comparative more acephalous, superlative most acephalous)
- Headless
- (zoology) Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.
- (botany) Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries
- Without a leader or chief.
- Wanting the beginning
- (prosody) Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable - Brande
Origin
From French acéphale, from Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (akephalos, “headless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κεφαλή (kephalē, “head”).
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