different between ventricose vs cephalophore

English

Adjective

ventricose (comparative more ventricose, superlative most ventricose)

1. distended; corpulent
2. (mycology) Broadest in the middle and tapering toward the ends

Anagrams

• nectivores

Italian

Adjective

ventricose

1. feminine plural of ventricoso

Latin

Adjective

ventric?se

1. vocative masculine singular of ventric?sus

English

Etymology

From French céphalophore, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kephal?, “head”) + -phore, from Ancient Greek -????? (-phoros, “bearing”), a derivative of ???? (phér?, “I bear, I carry”)

Noun

cephalophore (plural cephalophores)

1. (Roman Catholicism) any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.

   Similarly, it is clear that the whole company of martyrs, of whom legend relates that they carried their heads after death, the céphalophores, arose from a widely known form of iconography.

   Gordon Hall Gerould, Saints' Legends (1916), p. 51

   Likely referencing an article by Marcel Hébert, "Les martyrs céphalophores Euchaire, in Elophe et Libaire", in Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles, v. 19 (1914).

2. (obsolete) The family of mollusks with distinct heads.
3. (obsolete) The family of ventricose and filiform mushrooms.