Syllepsis

//sɪˈlɛp.sɪs// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one wordnet
  3. 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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