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What is the noun for sylleptic?

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syllepsis
  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity
  2. (botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The latter include specific accounts of the five figures of construction: antithesis, synthesis, prolepsis, syllepsis, and zeugma.”
      “The upmating of the persons, called in Greek syllepsis, touches the use of the personal pronouns.”
      “Probably the most common type, however, is syllepsis, where a word is understood differently in relation to two or more other words which it modifies or governs.”
syllepses
  1. plural of syllepsis
  2. Examples:
    1. “More complex instances of authorial disruptions might be labeled narratological syllepses.”
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