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Polysynthetic   Listen
adjective
Polysynthetic  adj.  Characterized by polysynthesis; agglutinative.
Polysynthetic twinning (Min.), repeated twinning, like that of the triclinic feldspar, producing fine parallel bands in alternately reversed positions.





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"Polysynthetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... as yet absolutely isolated from the other tongues of Europe, though from the purely grammatical point of view it recalls the Magyar and Finnic languages. It is an agglutinative, incorporating and polysynthetic system of speech; in the general series of organized linguistic families it would take an intermediate place between the American on the one side and the Ugro-Altaic or Ugrian ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various


Words linked to "Polysynthetic" :   agglutinative, synthetic


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