What does "phrasal" mean?

A grammatical construct that consists of multiple words, but behaves as a single part of speech.

Phrasal

Common synonyms include: compound adjective, lexical, particle verb, phrasal adjective, phrasal verb, phrase based.

/ˈfɹeɪzəl/ adj, noun

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Noun

1
A grammatical construct that consists of multiple words, but behaves as a single part of speech.
"Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating."
2
A grammatical construct that consists of multiple words, but behaves as a single part of speech.; A phrasal verb.

Adjective

1
Relating to, or used in the manner of, a phrase.
2
Consisting of multiple words, but behaving as a single part of speech.
"phrasal preposition"

Adjective

"Only when it comes to the tenses and the phrasal verbs is English grammar more difficult than German."

From phrase + -al.