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DACTYLIC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or consisting of dactyls

Example:

dactylic meter

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)

Pertainym:

dactyl (a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables)

Derivation:

dactyl (a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables)

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