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May 27, 2012
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pol•y•syn•thet•ic



Pronunciation: (pol"ē-sin-thet'ik), [key]
—adj.
1. (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Cf. analytic (def. 3), synthetic (def. 3).
2. of or pertaining to polysynthesism. Also,pol"y•syn•thet'i•cal.

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