(of a construction) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents; as in three blind mice, where the whole noun phrase fulfils the same role as its head noun mice
Compare exocentric
endocentric in American English
(ˌɛndoʊˈsɛntrɪk)
US
adjective
Linguistics
designating or of a construction which in its totality has the same syntactic function as one or more of its constituents (Ex.: the phrase ham and eggs has the same syntactic function as ham or eggs)