adj. 1. Polysynthetic. 2. Of or relating to the stage of child language development characterized by the use of single-word utterances. [HOLO- + Greek phrastikos, expressive (from -phrastos, speakable, thought of, from phrazein, to show; see gwhren- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] |
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