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Hipponacteans

Hipponacteans is the plural of Hipponactean.

Meaning of Hipponactean

Noun

Hipponactean (plural Hipponacteans)

  1. A Hipponactean verse; (especially) a hypercatalectic form of Glyconian verse.
    • We dismiss, at the outset, as unnecessary for our purpose, the long and learned-looking array of spondees, pyrrhics, trochees, dactyls, tribrachs and amphimacers with the endless but never nameless array of metres—dimeters, trimeters, Adonics, ithyphallics, Hipponacteans, and the rest; […]1888, James Wood Davidson, The Poetry of the Future, New York, N.Y.: John B. Alden, page 30

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Questions about Hipponacteans

What is Hipponacteans the plural of?
Hipponacteans is the plural of Hipponactean.

Words near Hipponacteans in the dictionary

  1. hippomobiles
  2. hippomorph
  3. hippomorphic
  4. hippomorphs
  5. Hipponactean
  6. Hipponacteans
  7. hipponicid
  8. hipponicids
  9. Hipponicus
  10. hippopathological
  11. hippopathology

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