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Ventricose vs Cephalophore - What's the difference?

ventricose | cephalophore |

As an adjective ventricose

is distended; corpulent.

As a noun cephalophore is

any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.

ventricose

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • distended; corpulent
  • (mycology) Broadest in the middle and tapering toward the ends
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    cephalophore

    English

    (wikipedia cephalophore)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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, Saints' Legends (1916), p. 51
  • :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.