Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two heads; bicephalous; specifically, ornamented with two heads or busts, as an engraved gem or the like. Jour. Archæol., XXIX. 311.
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- adjective zoology Having two
heads .
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Examples
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The fact to which two people (Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter) had pulled the band as a leader of the bicephalic was a joyous occasion for the fan.
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I click on these blogs quite a few fair times per day, being as I am both curious and competitive, and they have brought you delights such as our friend Samaha and the bicephalic brunet beauty of Michael J. Fox and George Stephanopoulos earlier today.
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I click on these blogs quite a few fair times per day, being as I am both curious and competitive, and they have brought you delights such as our friend Samaha and the bicephalic brunet beauty of Michael J. Fox and George Stephanopoulos earlier today.
Michael J. Fox and George Stephanopoulos!!! « raincoaster 2006
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Unable to find a bicephalic actor (or at least, one who could learn his lines), the BBC resorted to Mark Wing-Davey, Zaphod on radio, and built him an animatronic head and an extra arm
Don't Panic Gaiman, Neil 1993
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Grant Duff in 1888: "Russia is a great bicephalic creature, having one head European, and the other Asiatic, but with the persistent habit of turning its European face to the East, and its Asiatic face to the West [220]."
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) John Holland Rose 1898
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Alexandria of a bicephalic monster of apparently eight months 'pregnancy.
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-- There are many instances of bicephalic monsters on record.
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-- There are many instances of bicephalic monsters on record.
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A most curious case was that of a Fellah woman 5.44 who was delivered at Alexandria of a bicephalic monster of apparently eight months 'pregnancy.
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Two spirals entangled and confounded the one with the other, yet never touching, would afford a fair representation of this bicephalic life which I lived.
Clarimonde Th��ophile Gautier 1841
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