acephalous

1. Headless.

2. <marine biology> Without a distinct head; a term applied to bivalve mollusks.

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. Wanting the beginning. "A false or acephalous structure of sentence." (De Quincey)

6. Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry.

See: Acephal.


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