polycephalous

adj

adj

Etymology From poly- + -cephalous.

many-headed

Hercules can only have one head, the sole seat of consciousness that makes him a human individual, while the Hydra, a polycephalous organism capable of exponentially multiplying its heads, embodies a sort of metaphysical horror[...]2022, Laura Tripaldi, “A Many-Headed Thing”, in Parallel Minds, Urbanomic Media LTD, page 35:

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