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Polysynthetic

adjective
1.
Forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning.  Synonym: agglutinative.





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"Polysynthetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... stock after all, and as different from any Old World men: (1) They had low, retreating foreheads. (2) Their hair was black. (3) It was also of a peculiar texture, lank, and cylindrical in section, never wavy. And (4) their languages were polysynthetic, forming a class apart from all others in the world. The peoples of America, if from Asia, must date back to a time when speech ...
— History of the United States, Vol. I (of VI) • E. Benjamin Andrews


Words linked to "Polysynthetic" :   synthetic


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