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Poly-  pref.  A combining form or prefix from Gr. polys, many; as, polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many atoms; polychord, polyconic.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Poly-" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lands, Letters and Kings" would be any less welcome because they do not pretend to fill up all the details or cover all the incidents they hint in vivid outline. How many of us ever read or ever will read Drayton's "Poly-Olbion?" Twenty thousand long Alexandrines are filled with admirable descriptions of scenery, natural productions, and historical events, but how many of us in these days have time to read and inwardly digest twenty thousand ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)



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