bird-headed

English

Adjective

bird-headed (not comparable)

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

   a bird-headed statue

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 115:

     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.

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