Having a flower-like head or inflorescence; used to describe structures that resemble the shape and arrangement of flower heads.
From Greek 'anthos' (flower) + 'kephale' (head) + '-ous' (having the quality of). Describes the shape and organization of certain plant structures.
Composite flowers like sunflowers aren't single flowers at all—they're anthocephalous clusters of hundreds of tiny flowers packed into a disk, which is why they can be so enormous while still working as a single pollination unit.
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