po·ly·se·mous \|pälē|sēməs, -lə̇ˈ-; pəˈlisəm-\adjective Etymology: Late Latin polysemus, from Greek polysēmos with many meanings, from poly- + sēma sign : having many meanings < explains that his poem is polysemous — C.S.Singleton > < excited by the difficult, the ambiguous, the polysemous — R.G.Davis >