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Meaning of "tricephalous" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF TRICEPHALOUS

traɪˈsefələs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRICEPHALOUS

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

WHAT DOES TRICEPHALOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Polycephaly

Polycephaly is a condition of having more than one head. The term is derived from the Greek stems poly- meaning 'multiple' and kephali- meaning "head", and encompasses bicephaly and dicephaly. A variation is an animal born with two faces on a single head, a condition known as diprosopus. In medical terms these are all congenital cephalic disorders. There are many occurrences of multi-headed animals, in real life as well as in mythology. In heraldry and vexillology, the double-headed eagle is a common symbol, though no such animal is known to have ever existed. Bicephalic or tricephalic animals are the only type of multi-headed creatures seen in the real world and form by the same process as conjoined twins: they all result from the fusion of monozygotic twin embryos. One extreme example of this is the condition of craniopagus parasiticus, whereby a fully developed body has a parasitic twin head joined at the skull.

Definition of tricephalous in the English dictionary

The definition of tricephalous in the dictionary is with three heads.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRICEPHALOUS

acephalous · androcephalous · autocephalous · bicephalous · brachycephalous · Bucephalus · cephalous · hydrocephalous · hydrocephalus · leptocephalus · lissencephalous · macrocephalous · megacephalous · mesaticephalous · mesocephalous · microcephalous · oxycephalous · platycephalous · scaphocephalous · scaphocephalus

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRICEPHALOUS

tricameral · tricar · tricarboxylic acid cycle · tricarpellary · trice · Tricel · tricentenaries · tricentenary · tricentennial · triceps · triceratops · tricerion · trichiases · trichiasis · trichina · trichinae · trichinal · trichinella · trichinellae · trichiniases

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRICEPHALOUS

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 tricephalous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tricephalous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRICEPHALOUS

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The translations of tricephalous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tricephalous» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

tricephalous
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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tricéfalo
570 millions of speakers
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tricephalous
510 millions of speakers
hi

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tricephalous
380 millions of speakers
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tricephalous
280 millions of speakers
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tricephalous
278 millions of speakers
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tricephalous
270 millions of speakers
bn

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tricephalous
260 millions of speakers
fr

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tricephalous
220 millions of speakers
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Tricephalous
190 millions of speakers
de

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tricephalous
180 millions of speakers
ja

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tricephalous
130 millions of speakers
ko

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tricephalous
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Tricephalous
85 millions of speakers
vi

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tricephalous
80 millions of speakers
ta

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tricephalous
75 millions of speakers
mr

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त्रयस्थ
75 millions of speakers
tr

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tricephalous
70 millions of speakers
it

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tricephalous
65 millions of speakers
pl

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tricephalous
50 millions of speakers
uk

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tricephalous
40 millions of speakers
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tricephalous
30 millions of speakers
el

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tricephalous
15 millions of speakers
af

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tricephalous
14 millions of speakers
sv

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tricephalous
10 millions of speakers
no

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tricephalous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tricephalous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRICEPHALOUS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of tricephalous
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tricephalous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRICEPHALOUS»

Discover the use of tricephalous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tricephalous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tricephalous (Comics)
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011
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Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease
(315) The tricephalous is the strongest harbinger of a future among the three and what they represent. In the novel, visual art reflects Hulme's own aims in writing a cure for her bicultural community. Moreover, in addition to the importance of ...
Gay Alden Wilentz, 2000
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The Epistles of Ovidius Naso Faithfully Converted Into a New ...
Of heads on Thracian hall you say your word: Mares anthropophagous: Of triple Geryon, rich in flock and herd, Monster tricephalous : 24,. And Cerberus, the triple dog in one, Whose hair immix'd with snakes: The serpent, too, by every loss ...
Ovid, John JUMP (pseud?.), 1857
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Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004
Cast:Russ Thacker,Georgia Engel, BobGunton, Jana Robbins, Nicole Barth,Jon Engstrom,Susan Danielle 2627. T.N.T. Musical sendupof California cults ( Tricephalous Neurosyllogistic Training). Players, 4/22/82–4/25/82. 7 prev.6 perf. w: ...
John Stewart, 2006
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The Epistles of Ovidius Naso
Of heads on Thracian hall you say your word : Mares anthropophagous : Of triple Geryon, rich in flock and herd, Monster tricephalous : 24. And Cerberus, the triple dog in one, Whose hair immix'd with snakes : The serpent, too, by every loss ...
Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, 1857
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A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways ...
This characteristic probably reflects the eternal di‹culty in China of outsiders trying to understand the many local dialects and non-Chinese languages in the south.371 225 226 224 222 224. THE TRICEPHALOUS PEOPLE ( SANSHOUMIN) ...
Richard E. Strassberg, 2002
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Life, a User's Manual
The second is a carved curio, a basalt statue of the tricephalous Mother-Goddess , about fifteen inches high. Smautf obtained it in the Seychelles in exchange for another sculpture,similarly tricephalous, but of an entirely different design: it was  ...
Georges Perec, 2009
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation
This PIE phrase “he killed the serpent” is connected with, or rather is part of, a body of IE mythology concerned with a three headed monster, or Tricephalous Monster, and a warrior who obtains eternal fame for the act of killing the beast.36  ...
Michael A. Cahill, 2012
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Errors of Speech and of Spelling
Bisection, bi.sek' .shun. Latin tri-[tris, tria]s£co supine sectum, to cut into three parts. palous, tri.sep' M.lus. Tri-cephalous, tri.se~f'.a.lus. ^risepalous, having 3 sepals. Tricephalous, having 3 heads. ' Trisepalous," Gk. <rt-[trels, trial and the word ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 1877
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Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the ...
Aptly located in the cemetery of Pisa, this fresco is wholly dominated by the tricephalous figure of Satan. This devil ingests sinners through all of his mouths, then gives birth to or defecates them below. Two sinners are shown twisting in torment ...
Nancy Caciola, 2003

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRICEPHALOUS»

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We Found Our Villains
Maybe start laying the groundwork with either Sarah or Morgan that she isn't planning of going all the way to the end as a tricephalous entity. However, this ... «Rob Cesternino Has a Website, Mar 14»
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Book News: Ancient Texts From Vatican And Bodleian Libraries …
... she says "revels in excess and assemblage; tricephalous and multilimbed, with arthropod and reptilian features such as ruffs, tusks, fangs, tentacles, and jaws, ... «NPR, Dec 13»
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Here Be Monsters
... however entertaining, don't explain the whole activity of the monstrous imagination, which revels in excess and assemblage; tricephalous and multilimbed, ... «The New York Review of Books, Nov 13»
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