Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having two heads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two heads.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having two heads.
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- adjective zoology Having two
heads .
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- adjective having two heads
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Examples
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To avoid meeting Mrs. Grales, he used the pedestrian underpass; it was no time for pleasant conversations with the bicephalous old tomato woman.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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He glanced down at her bicephalous shadow on the floor It hinted at a terrible Justice-this shadow shape.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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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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The benefit of unity had never been adequately appreciated till it had been lost, till the Church had become bicephalous of tricephalous, and there seemed to be no head precisely because there were too many.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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For two houses with like minds are stronger than one that is bicephalous.
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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It was a bicephalous child that lived thirty-two hours after he had ligated one of its heads.
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It was a bicephalous child that lived thirty-two hours after he had ligated one of its heads.
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"Russia's bicephalous ruling format is not likely to be permanent based on Russian history and current tandem dynamics," Beyrle wrote in February 2010 according to a copy of the cable.
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In some of the last dispatches released by WikiLeaks, US diplomats correctly predicted that Russia's "bicephalous ruling format" was fizzling out.
The Guardian World News Luke Harding 2011
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"Russia's bicephalous ruling format is not likely to be permanent based on Russian history and current tandem dynamics," Beyrle wrote in February 2010 according to a copy of the cable here
Reuters: Top News 2011
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