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Definition of Heterocephalus
1. Noun. Sand rats.
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
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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