Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bearing or consisting of many heads.
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Examples
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Compared with the polycephalous poppies my race of twisted teasels is much richer in atavists.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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If we do this with the polycephalous variety, the relation between individual strength and degree of metamorphosis at once becomes manifest.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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He was desirous of exercising his culture on it, and wished to ascertain whether the skull was bracchy-cephalous, dolichophalous, or polycephalous.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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They are not so much two-faced as positively polycephalous.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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They are not so much two-faced as positively polycephalous.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But in most cases he is a serpent which in outward appearance seems to differ from other ophidians only in being winged and polycephalous -- the number of his heads generally varying from three to twelve. [
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858
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