pleio-, plei-, pleo-, pleon-, plio-
(Greek: more, most; full; excessive; multiple)
Don't confuse this element with another pleo- unit meaning "swim, sail, float".
pleometrosis, pleometrotic
1. The founding of a colony of social organisms by more than one original female.
2. In certain kinds of ants, the occurrence of several fertile females (queens) in a single nest.
2. In certain kinds of ants, the occurrence of several fertile females (queens) in a single nest.
pleomorphic, pleomorphous
1. Polymorphic; assuming various shapes or forms within a species or group, or during a single life cycle.
2. Occurring in various distinct forms; exhibiting pleomorphism.
2. Occurring in various distinct forms; exhibiting pleomorphism.
pleomorphism
1. The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; a redundancy: Here are a few examples of pleonasms: "advance warning", "blood hemorrhage", "unmarried bachelor", and "free gift".
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A “gift" is always "free"; so the use of the term “free” is a pleonasm which is not needed to express the word “gift”!
2. The use of more words than are required to communicate, or superfluous expressions of words, when talking or writing: Whenever Jane answered a question for the professor in the mathematic's class, she used pleonasms instead of short to the point answers which made the other students think she was really trying to make everyone believe that she was a specialist in the subject.Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
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pleonast
Someone who is addicted to pleonasms.
pleonastic, pleonastical
Of, or pertaining to, of the nature of, characterized by, or constituting, pleonasm.
pleonastical
Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant.
pleonastically
In a pleonastic manner.
pleonectic
A term describing blood that has a percentage saturation of oxygen above normal at any given pressure.
pleonexia
A psychiatric disorder characterized by greediness; excessive desire for acquisition of wealth or objects.
pleonosteosis
1. An abnormally increased ossification; premature and excessive ossification.
2. A superabundance of bone formation.
2. A superabundance of bone formation.
pleonotia, pleonotus
A developmental anomaly characterized by the presence of a supernumerary ear located on the neck.
pleophagous, pleophage, pleophagy
1. Feeding on a variety of food substances or food species.
2. A reference to a parasite associated with a variety of hosts or several different hosts.
2. A reference to a parasite associated with a variety of hosts or several different hosts.
pleoptics
1. A method of eye exercises created to stimulate and train an amblyopic (reduced vision) eye.
2. A treatment for suppression amblyopia (reduction or dimness of vision) that relatively enhances macular vision by dazzling the paramacular area with a ring of light accurately localized by a pleoptophor (device for treating eccentric fixation by dazzling the perimacular retina, thereby relatively enhancing the visual capability of the fovea [small cup-shaped depression or pit]).
2. A treatment for suppression amblyopia (reduction or dimness of vision) that relatively enhances macular vision by dazzling the paramacular area with a ring of light accurately localized by a pleoptophor (device for treating eccentric fixation by dazzling the perimacular retina, thereby relatively enhancing the visual capability of the fovea [small cup-shaped depression or pit]).
pleopygian
Having bulging buttocks.
Lists of Pleonasms and Tautological Redundancies may be seen here.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "more, plentiful, fullness, excessive, over flowing":
copi-;
exuber-;
hyper-;
multi-;
opulen-;
ple-;
plethor-;
poly-;
super-;
total-;
ultra-;
undu-.
