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consisting of a syllable or syllables; constituting a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound not accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominating the other vowel sounds in a syllab disyllabic, monosyllabic, octosyllabic, pentasyllabic, polysyllabic, syllabled (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities decasyllabic, octosyllabic consisting of or using a syllabary or syllabic characters; "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing" of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic characters each represent a syllable" of liquids and nasals |
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