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Adjective: exocentric  ,ek-sow'sen-trik
  1. (grammar) not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents
    "when 'until last Easter' serves as an adverb it is an exocentric construction"

Antonym: endocentric

Encyclopedia: Exocentric

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