Thesaurus: acephalous

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Definitions

1. a. Headless.
2. a. Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.
3. a. Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.
4. a. Without a leader or chief.
5. a. Wanting the beginning.
6. a. Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry.
7. adj. lacking a head or a clearly defined head
8. 1. Headless. 2. (Zoöl.) Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks. 3. (Bot.) 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. Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey. 6. (Pros.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry. Brande.
9. Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks.
10. s. lacking a head or a clearly defined head