Meaning of Mekon | Babel Free

Definitions

A hyperintelligent alien being with a huge brain and otherwise atrophied body, the fictional archenemy of Dan Dare.

Examples

“The rocks rise: massy, fissured, dusty-red; / The desert unimagined Mekon-green; / The Scottsdale panorama soothes my head, / When tortured with the brutal, shattered scene.”

“Allometry is a Mekon theory of human cognition, after the melon-headed Mekon from Mekonta, Dan Dare's super-intelligent adversary in the sci-fi comics of the 1950s. But Preuss, and other evolution-minded neuroscientists, argue that it is time to ditch this 'bigger, better but similar' notion of brain evolution […]”

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