Adjective: holophrastic ,hó-lu'fras-tik or ,how-lu'fras-tik
- (linguistics) pertaining to the stage of development where a child produces simple one-word utterances
"The child's holophrastic speech consisted of single words to express complex ideas"
- Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word
"Some languages use holophrastic words to convey complex meanings"
Encyclopedia: Holophrastic