Mollusk vs Cephalophore - What's the difference?
mollusk | cephalophore |
(Roman Catholicism) any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.
:Similarly, it is clear that the whole company of martyrs, of whom legend relates that they carried their heads after death, the ''céphalophores'', arose from a widely known form of iconography.
:Gordon Hall Gerould,
:Likely referencing an article by Marcel Hébert, "Les martyrs céphalophores Euchaire, in Elophe et Libaire", in Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles , v. 19 (1914).
(obsolete) The family of mollusks with distinct heads.
(obsolete) The family of ventricose and filiform mushrooms.
As nouns the difference between mollusk and cephalophore
is that mollusk is (us) while cephalophore is (roman catholicism) any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.cephalophore
English
(wikipedia cephalophore)Noun
(en noun)Saints' Legends(1916), p. 51