acephalous
Meaning of acephalous
- not having a head.
an acephalous skeleton
- (typically of a hexameter beginning with a short syllable) lacking a syllable or syllables in the first foot.
mid 18th century: via medieval Latin from Greek akephalos ‘headless’ (from a- ‘without’ + kephalē ‘head’) + -ous.
Information about acephalous
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of acephalous
acephalous
- It consists of 1 syllables and 10 chars.
- acephalous is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of acephalous
Words that rhyme with acephalous
acanthocephalous, acrocephalous, alkalous, alternipetalous, alternisepalous, amyelencephalous, androcephalous, andropetalous, anencephalous, anisopetalous, anisosepalous, anomalous, anomphalous, anthocephalous, antipetalous, antisepalous, apetalous, apopetalous, aposepalous, argyrocephalous, asepalous, atelocephalous, autocephalous, becephalous, bicephalous, bipetalous, brachistocephalous, brachycephalous, cacozealous, catapetalous, cephalous, chamecephalous, choripetalous, chorisepalous, clinocephalous, colocephalous, cryptocephalous, cymbocephalous, cynocephalous, daedalous, decapetalous, decasepalous, deuteranomalous, dialypetalous, dialysepalous, dicephalous, dipetalous, diplocephalous, discocephalous, disepalous