amoebean
11satire — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, English sonnet, Goliardic verse, Horatian ode, Hudibrastic verse, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Rabelaisian, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, agile wit, alba, amoebean verse, anacreontic …
12Sequence — I (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Sequence >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 sequence sequence coming after Sgm: N 1 going after going after &c.(following) 281 Sgm: N 1 consecution consecution succession Sgm: N 1 posteriority posteriority …
13amoebaean — or amoebean [am΄i bē′ən] adj. [< L amoebaeum (carmen) < Gr ( asma) amoibaion, responsive (song) < amoibē: see AMOEBA] answering or responding to each other, as successive strophes of a verse dialogue …
14amoebaean — /am euh bee euhn/, adj. Pros. alternately responsive, as verses in dialogue. Also, amoebean. [1650 60; < L amoebae(us) antiphonal ( < Gk amoibaîos interchanging, equiv. to amoib(é) alternation (cf. AMEBA) + aios adj. suffix) + AN] * * *… …
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