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Definition of Asclepiad

1. Noun. Any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae.

Definition of Asclepiad

1. n. A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.

Definition of Asclepiad

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Asclepiad

ASCII ASCII character ASCII character set ASCII control character ASCII text file ascites ascites ascites adiposus ascites in neonates ascitic

ascitic ascitic agar ascitic fluid ascitic tumour ascitogenous asclepiad (current term) Asclepiadaceae asclepiadaceous asclepiadaceous asclepiads

asclepias Asclepias Asclepias albicans Asclepias curassavica Asclepias exaltata Asclepias incarnata Asclepias meadii Asclepias purpurascens Asclepias speciosa Asclepias subverticillata

Literary usage of Asclepiad

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1. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Horace and the Elegiac Poets by William Young Sellar, Andrew Lang (1892)
"... third asclepiad—was finally adopted by him as one of his regular metres, and it is so employed that two couplets are grouped together into one stanza; ..."

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