Definition of "heterocephalous"

heterocephalous

adjective
not comparable
1. (botany) Bearing two kinds of head or capitula; said of certain composite plants.
2. Having the governing body appointed by an outside authority; government through heterocephaly.
  Quotations
  It is possible for a heterocephalous group to be autonomous and an autocephalous group to be heteronomous
  2009, Max Weber, The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization