bicephalous

[ bahy-sef-uh-luhs ]

adjective

, Botany, Zoology.

1. having two heads.

bicephalous

/ baɪˈsɛfələs /

adjective

1. biology having two heads
2. crescent-shaped

Word History and Origins

Origin of bicephalous¹

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

Example Sentences

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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