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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hexameter /hɛkˈsamɪtə/

▶noun Prosody a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet.

'hexameter' also found in these Oxford entries:

dactylic hexameter - elegiac couplet - Leonine - -meter - spondaic

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