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Definition of 'syllepsis'English
Noun
(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
(botany) 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
* (botany) prolepsis
Coordinate terms
* (rhetoric) zeugma
Hypernyms
* (rhetoric) brachylogy
Related terms
* sylleptic
References
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