Pronounced: am-fuh-BAH-luh-jee (alt: amp-fuh-BAH-luh-jee), noun
Notes: I didn’t know the word, but I’ve heard and used amphibologies
Yesterday’s word
The word polyphiloprogenitive means “extremely prolific”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1910s (in a poem by T. S. Eliot)
Background / Comments
Our word came from a combination of three Latin words: poly- (many) plus philo- (loving) plus progenitive (producing offspring). It can be used of couples who have a lot of children, but the word can refer to anything that is very prolific (such as weeds).
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