Associations to the word «Syllepsis»

SYLLEPSIS, 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

SYLLEPSIS, noun. (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.

SYLLEPSIS, noun. Use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one.