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Keywords: diphthong, riddle, eskimos, oi, botany

Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment.

Consisting of or relating to syllables.

consisting of or using a syllabary or syllabic characters; "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing"

Keywords: neumatic, melismatic, melodic, sung, lesson

Music in which each syllable of text gets one note. ( Lesson 3, Page 1) HEAR IT

a setting of text in which each syllable is sung to one pitch

Melodic style with one note to each syllable of text.

Keywords: accent, lab, pertaining, relating, characters

Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent.

of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic characters each represent a syllable"

(syl·lab·ic) involving syllables: relating to, involving, or typical of a syllable or syllables.

Keywords: verse, rhythmical, stresses, quantities, arrangement

(of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities

Keywords: nasals, liquids

of liquids and nasals

Keywords: plural, see

See syllabogram. Predominantly used in the plural as syllabics.

Keywords: glossary

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