Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having three heads. Compare tricipital.
Examples
“When we get to Macrobius' Saturnalia, this tricephalous monster becomes associated with Time, and Serapis is associated with the Sun.”
“The benefit of unity had never been adequately appreciated till it had been lost, till the Church had become bicephalous of tricephalous, and there seemed to be no head precisely because there were too many.”
“Rome, the other at Avignon, yea, when he reads of three contestants for papal honors, and beholds the Church as a tricephalous monster, he must stop thinking.”
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘tricephalous’.
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phrontistery-t
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Logolepsy
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Polycephaly - A Many-Headed List
A list of terms for things with many heads, including animal monsters, plants, human and animal chimera, mythical beings, &c., including the terms to describe them.
polycephaly, three-headed, four-headed, five-headed, six-headed, seven-headed, ten-headed, twelve-headed, thirteen-headed, fifteen-headed, seventeen-headed, two-headed and 49 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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