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Syllepsis
//sɪˈlɛp.sɪs// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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. countable, rhetoric, uncountable
- 2 use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one wordnet
- 3 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. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From Latin syllepsis, from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō).
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