| acephalous | 1. Headless. 2. <marine biology> Without a distinct head; a term applied to bivalve mollusks. 3. <botany> Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries. 4. Without a leader or chief. 5. Wanting the beginning. "A false or acephalous structure of sentence." (De Quincey) 6. Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry. See: Acephal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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