synaphea

Meaning

Noun

• The metrical continuity between one colon and another.
• Mutual connection of all the verses in a system, so that they are scanned as one verse, as in anapaestics.
• Elision or synalepha, at the end of a line, of the final vowel of a dactylic hexameter before the initial vowel of the next.
• Any plant of the genus Synaphea, especially one of the type species Synaphea petiolaris (species).

Origin

• Ancient Greek συνάπτω ("to join together")
• Translingual Synaphea ("genus name")