no longer having a head 失去头部的 an acephalous skeleton. 无头骨架。 ■(Zoology)not having a head (动)无头的 ■having no leader or chief 无首领的 an acephalous society. 群龙无首的社会。
(Prosody)(typically of a hexameter beginning with a short syllable) lacking a syllable or syllables in the first foot (诗韵)(尤指以短音节开头的六韵步诗行)首音步少一个(或几个)音节的
语源
mid 18th cent.: via medieval Latin from Greek akephalos 'headless' (from a- 'without' + kephalē 'head') + -ous