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pentarsic

pentarsic adjective: having five stresses on each line of verse.

Adjective

pentarsic (not comparable)

  1. Having five stresses on each line of verse

Origin of pentarsic

From penta- + arsic.

Questions about pentarsic

What does pentarsic mean?
Pentarsic means having five stresses on each line of verse.
What part of speech is pentarsic?
Pentarsic is an adjective.

Words near pentarsic in the dictionary

  1. pentarepeats
  2. pentaresistance
  3. pentaresistant
  4. pentaribonucleotide
  5. pentaribonucleotides
  6. pentarsic
  7. pentas
  8. pentasaccharide
  9. pentasaccharides
  10. pentasectible
  11. pentaselenide

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