Definition of Heterocephalus

1. Noun. Sand rats.

Exact synonyms: Genus Heterocephalus
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bathyergidae, Family Bathyergidae
Member holonyms: Sand Rat

Medical Definition of Heterocephalus

1. Conjoined twins with heads of unequal size. See: conjoined twins. Origin: hetero-+ G. Kephale, head (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterocephalus

heterobicyclic
heterobimetallic
heterobiographies
heterobiography
heteroblastic
heteroblasty
heterocarpism
heterocarpous
heterocarpy
heterocatenation
heterocellular
heterocentric
heterocentrisms
heterocephalous
heterocephalus (current term)
heterocera
heterocerc
heterocercal
heterocercal fin
heterocercs
heterocercy
heterochain
heterochains
heterocheiral
heterochlamydeous
heterochroma iridium
heterochromatic
heterochromatin
heterochromatinic

Literary usage of Heterocephalus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Unknown Horn of Africa by Frank Linsly James (1888)
"NOTES ON THE RODENT GENUS heterocephalus. By OLDFIELD THOMAS, FZS, Natural History Museum. (Plate IV.) On the 16th of June last I had the pleasure of ..."

2. Under the African Sun; a Description of the Native Races in Uganda, Sporting by William John Ansorge, Ernst Hartert (1899)
"The hairless, yellowish skin of the heterocephalus felt to the touch something like a frog's naked skin. The eyes are so small, that I thought at first this ..."

3. Bulletin by United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution (1918)
"heterocephalus stygius GM ALLEN, Bull. Mus. ... heterocephalus glaber progrediens ... Measurements of specimens of heterocephalus ..."

4. Natural History in Zoological Gardens: Being Some Account of Vertebrated Animals by Frank Evers Beddard (1905)
"The deficient hairy covering is more than matched in another African and burrowing creature, the little rodent heterocephalus. It appears that for burrowing ..."

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