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.
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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.
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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.
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They are not so much two-faced as positively polycephalous.
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They are not so much two-faced as positively polycephalous.
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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
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