what does amphiboly mean?
AMPHIBOLY as NOUN
- Meaning
- an ambiguous grammatical construction
- e.g., `they are flying planes” can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes
Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) amphiboly is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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