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céphalophore

/se.fa.lɔ.fɔʁ/

noun, masculine/feminine/se.fa.lɔ.fɔʁ/plural: céphalophores

cephalophore (saint); cephalopod; cephalophore (fungal)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”); in the Christian sense coined by French philosopher Marcel Hébert in 1914.