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cephalous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cephalous
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a head; applied chiefly to the former division of mollusks Cephalata, or Cephalophora (mollusks with a head).

Obsolete

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”), with the suffix -ous.

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Questions

What does cephalous mean?
Having a head; applied chiefly to the former division of mollusks Cephalata, or Cephalophora (mollusks with a head).
Where does cephalous come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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