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syllepses

syllepses is the plural of syllepsis.

Meaning of syllepsis

Noun

syllepsis (countable and uncountable, plural syllepses)

  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.
  2. Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
    Antonyms:
    prolepsis

Questions about syllepses

What is syllepses the plural of?
Syllepses is the plural of syllepsis.

Words near syllepses in the dictionary

  1. syllabuses
  2. Syllas
  3. syllectogram
  4. syllectograms
  5. syllectometry
  6. syllepses
  7. syllepsis
  8. sylleptic
  9. sylleptical
  10. sylleptically
  11. syllid

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