-cephalous Definition

sefələs
suffix
Having a specified kind of head or number of heads.
Dicephalous.
American Heritage
adjective
Having a head.
Webster's New World

(zoology) Having a head; applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks.

Wiktionary
affix

Having a (specified) kind of head or number of heads; -cephalic.

Macrocephalous.
Webster's New World

Origin of -cephalous

  • From Greek -kephalos from kephalē head ghebh-el- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • see cephalic

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

  • Ancient Greek

    From Wiktionary

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