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Definition of Cephalous
1. a. Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks.
Definition of Cephalous
1. Adjective. (zoology) Having a head; applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cephalous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cephalous
Literary usage of Cephalous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1843)
"The reading of Mr. Huxley's paper, " Upon the Morphology of the cephalous Mollusca,
as illustrated by the Anatomy of certain Heteropoda and ..."
2. A Catalogue of the British Non-parasitical Worms in the Collection of the by George Johnston (1865)
"8 a & 11 a) exist only in cephalous genera. They are soft, setaceous filaments,
... The Mouth in the cephalous tribe is almost always furnished with ..."
3. British Barrows: A Record of the Examination of Sepulchral Mounds in Various by William Greenwell (1877)
"And of ' Meso-cephalous,' those with index from 72-76,' ... 76-80,'
Meso-brachy-cephalous. ..."
4. The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Manchester Geographical Society (1887)
"... cephalous is not confirmed by the measurements made by Dr. L. Wolf and Dr.
Carl Mense. Of 57 Bangala which were measured by them 24 were ..."
5. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster, Edwin Ray Lankester (1898)
"In conclusion, I would observe that the archetypal cephalous Mollusk (as thus
denned) is, in all its modifications, sharply separated from other archetypes, ..."
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