ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bird-headed

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Bird-headed is an adjective meaning Having a bird’s head, especially of a mythological figure.

Meaning

Having a bird’s head, especially of a mythological figure.

More Meanings

  1. (historical) Having a birth defect (Seckel syndrome) resulting in a head with a large nose, weakly developed chin, receding brow, and small cranial cavity.

Example Sentences

a bird-headed statue
The ithyphallic condition of the bird-headed man, associated as he is with a magical staff with a bird on top of it, can then be seen in a context in which precisely those images do have meaning.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hawk-beaked, hawk-billed, ornithoid, ornithomorphic, bird-like, bird's-eye.

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