different between acephalous vs acephalic

English

Etymology

From French acéphale, from Ancient Greek ???????? (aképhalos, “headless”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ?????? (kephal?, “head”). Synchronically, a- +? -cephalous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?f?l?s/

Adjective

acephalous (comparative more acephalous, superlative most acephalous)

1. Headless
2. (zoology, applied to bivalve mollusks) Without a distinct head.
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. Without a beginning
   • 1828, Thomas de Quincey, Elements of Rhetoric (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

     A false or acephalous structure of sentence.

6. (prosody) Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable

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Derived terms

• acephalously

Translations

English

Etymology

a- +? cephalic

Adjective

acephalic (not comparable)

1. Without a head.

Synonyms

• acephalous
• headless

Translations