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DACTYLIC
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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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