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headful

a. (context genetics English) That fills the head of a phage n. An amount of information, emotion, etc. present in the mind.

WordNet
headful
  1. n. the quantity of information that a head will hold; "he has a headful of baseball statistics"

  2. a covering over the surface of your head; "a headful of tight curls"; "a headful of lice"

Usage examples of "headful".

The M16 and the K-Bar seemed fitting emblems of that place, even more now than when, freshly returned from Vietnam and with a headful of memories that he could not shake, he had taken them for his bedside companions.

A headful of weather-lore, crop-lore, beast-lore, and similar old wives' tales, worthwhile if he'd ever intended to set up as an herbwife.