synaphea English

Meaning synaphea meaning

What does synaphea mean?

synaphea noun

— (prosody) The metrical continuity between one colon and another.

— (prosody) Mutual connection of all the verses in a system, so that they are scanned as one verse, as in anapaestics.

— (prosody) Elision or synalepha, at the end of a line, of the final vowel of a dactylic hexameter before the initial vowel of the next.

synaphea noun

— Any plant of the genus Synaphea, especially one of the type species Synaphea petiolaris.