A creature or artistic representation having a human male head on a non-human body, used in heraldry and classical art.
From Greek 'andros' (man) and 'kephale' (head), with Latin neuter nominative ending -um. It's the Latin noun form of androcephalous, used in formal descriptions of hybrid creatures.
Medieval bestiaries and heraldic traditions used Latin terms like androcephalum to seriously catalog imaginary hybrid creatures, treating them with the same scientific precision modern zoologists use for real animals.
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