Relating to or having a head, or describing organisms that possess a distinct head region.
From Greek 'kephale' (head) + '-ous' (adjective suffix meaning having or characterized by). This suffix is commonly used in biology to create adjectives describing anatomical features.
The term 'cephalous' is part of a brilliant system in biology where '-cephalous' attaches to prefixes to describe heads: 'acephalous' (headless), 'bicephalous' (two-headed), 'microcephalous' (small-headed)—it's a linguistic shortcut for describing infinite variations on head anatomy.
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