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Meaning of "cephalous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CEPHALOUS

cephalous  [ˈsefələs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CEPHALOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cephalous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CEPHALOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of cephalous in the English dictionary

The definition of cephalous in the dictionary is having a head, chiefly used of the mollusc species Cephalata.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CEPHALOUS


acephalous
əˈsɛfələs
androcephalous
ˌændrəʊˈsɛfələs
autocephalous
ˌɔːtəʊˈsɛfələs
bicephalous
baɪˈsɛfələs
brachycephalous
ˌbrækɪˈsɛfələs
Bucephalus
bjuːˈsɛfələs
hydrocephalous
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈsefələs
hydrocephalus
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈsɛfələs
leptocephalus
ˌlɛptəʊˈsɛfələs
lissencephalous
ˌlɪsenˈsefələs
macrocephalous
ˌmækrəʊˈsefələs
megacephalous
ˌmeɡəˈsefələs
mesaticephalous
ˌmɛsətɪˈsɛfələs
mesocephalous
ˌmɛsəʊˈsɛfələs
microcephalous
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈsɛfələs
oxycephalous
ˌɒksɪˈsɛfələs
platycephalous
ˌplætɪˈsɛfələs
scaphocephalous
ˌskæfəʊˈsɛfələs
scaphocephalus
ˌskæfəʊˈsefələs
tricephalous
traɪˈsefələs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CEPHALOUS

cephalitis
cephalization
cephalocele
cephalochordate
cephalometer
cephalometric
cephalometry
Cephalonia
cephalopod
cephalopodan
cephalopodic
cephalopodous
cephaloridine
cephalosporin
cephalothin
cephalothoraces
cephalothoracic
cephalothorax
cephalotomy

WORDS THAT END LIKE CEPHALOUS

anomalous
antipetalous
antisepalous
apetalous
bipetalous
dialypetalous
dipetalous
disepalous
episepalous
jealous
megalocephalous
monopetalous
monosepalous
octopetalous
overzealous
ridiculous
scandalous
synsepalous
tripetalous
unzealous
zealous

Synonyms and antonyms of cephalous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cephalous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CEPHALOUS

Find out the translation of cephalous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cephalous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cephalous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cephalous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cephalous
570 millions of speakers

English

cephalous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cephalous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cephalous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

cephalous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cephalous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cephalous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cephalous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cephalous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cephalous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cephalous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cephalous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cephalous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cephalous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cephalous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नेत्रभंगुर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kafası olan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cephalous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cephalous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cephalous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cephalous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cephalous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cephalous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cephalous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cephalous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cephalous

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CEPHALOUS»

The term «cephalous» is barely ever used and occupies the 194.337 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CEPHALOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cephalous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cephalous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cephalous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CEPHALOUS»

Discover the use of cephalous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cephalous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
... for the movements of an anencephalous foetus in utero, or of a decapitated animal, on the other. The paralysis consists in the loss of voluntary motion; the movements of the anen- cephalous fcetus result from the agency of the reflex function ...
2
Studies on the Phonological Word
The word status of cephalous is unclear: it is listed as an adjective in Lehnert ( 1971), as a bound stem with the meaning 'indicates a head' in The American Heritage Dictionary (1985), and has no entry in Webster's (1990). The variants in (67) ...
T. Alan Hall, Ursula Kleinhenz, 1999
3
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
ROYAL SOCIETY. May 27.—“ Upon the Morphology of the Cephalous Mollusca, as illustrated by the Anatomy of certain Heteropoda and Pteropoda.” By Thomas Huxley, Esq., F.R.S. In the present memoir the author endeavours to determine, ...
4
The Philosophical Magazine
He finds that it is possible not only to deduce the structure of the Heteropoda and Pteropoda from a simple and symmetrical archetype by such morphological laws, but that all the cephalous Mollusca fall under one or other of the great types of ...
5
Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical ...
In the second part of the paper, the author endeavours, by carefully collating the known facts of the development of the Mollusca, to ascertain (a) the primary form of all cephalous Mollusca, and (A) the mode in which, in the course ...
Royal Society (Great Britain), 1843
6
The animal kingdom: arranged in conformity with its organization
A species of neck, as some authors have made of it, formed of the narrowest and shortest rings, which immediately follow the cephalous rings, and the entire appendage of which is almost rudimentary. But these rings are something less ...
Georges Cuvier (baron), Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, 1833
7
Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia: Communal Commitment ...
The failure of the Qajar government to control the Gurgan Iomut with military expeditions and institutions of indirect rule like the saklau in the nineteenth century clearly indicated this materiality.55 Cephalous tribal political order Lawrence ...
Paul Georg Geiss, 2004
8
The Animal Kingdom: Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization
A species of neck, as some authors have made of it, formed of the narrowest and shortest rings, which immediately follow the cephalous rings, and the entire appendage of which is almost rudimentary. But these rings are something less ...
Georges baron Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, 1833
9
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
He finds that it is possible not only to deduce the structure of the Heteropoda and Pteropoda from a simple and symmetrical archetype by such morphological laws, but that all the cephalous Mollusca fall under one or other of the great types of ...
10
More Letters of Charles Darwin (Complete)
Thepaperof Huxley's is"On the Morphology of the Cephalous Mollusca, etc." (" Phil. Trans. R. Soc." Volume 143, PartI., 1853, page29.)); I haveread it all with much interest: but it would be ridiculous in me to make any remarks on a subjecton ...
Charles Darwin

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CEPHALOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cephalous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Supi Bekoe Ascends Obosomase Akuapem Throne
... in African affairs, communities in this part of Africa were cephalous societies with priests serving as lawgivers and adjudicators of civil strives. «GhanaWeb, Sep 13»
2
Gambia: Sam Sarr Exposed Ebriman Chongan!!
Other than the misspelling of fulfillment and the placing of 'a' before cephalous a word that denotes having a particular number of heads or a ... «Freedom Newspaper, May 10»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cephalous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cephalous>. May 2024 ».
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