English Explanatory Dictionary

cephalophore

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.
  2. Synonym of cephalopod: a mollusk of the class Cephalopoda.

Word forms

cephalophore cephalophores

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”), a derivative of φέρω (phérō, “I bear, I carry”); in the Christian sense, via French céphalophore, coined by Marcel Hébert in 1914.

Synonyms

cephalopod
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