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单词 metagram
释义 metagram|ˈmɛtəgræm|
[f. Gr. µετα- meta- + γράµµα letter, after anagram.]
A kind of puzzle turning on the alteration of a word by removing some of its letters and substituting others.
1867London Society XII. 307 We therefore welcome a new sort of 'gram... Its name, metagram, is derived from two Greek words, signifying a ‘change of letters’. It is on this change that the whole thing turns.1882Grosart in Spenser's Wks. III. p. lxxxii, An anagram or metagram.
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