Mekon

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proper noun

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

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

    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.

    2007, Jerry Dowlen, Lio lios: poems 1968 to 2005, page 60
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    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 […]

    2010, Jeremy Taylor, Not a Chimp: The hunt to find the genes that make us human

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Mekon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mekon

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Chicago

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