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Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks.

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

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

Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx.

Without a brain; brainless. Todd & B.

Having a gold-colored head.

Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.

Having two heads.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

Having two heads on one body; double-headed.

Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic. -- Dol`i*cho*ceph"al, a. & n.

Having a head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.

Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala.

Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; -- said of certain composite plants.

Having hydrocephalus. "Hydrocephalous offspring." G. Eliot.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.

Having a large brain.

Having a large head.

Large headed; -- applied to animals, and to plants when they have large flower heads.

Mesaticephalic.