·adj Wanting the beginning.
II. Acephalous ·adj Without a leader or chief.
III. Acephalous ·adj Headless.
IV. Acephalous ·adj Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry.
V. Acephalous ·adj Without a distinct head;
— a term applied to bivalve mollusks.
VI. Acephalous ·adj Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.