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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Amphibrach \Am"phi*brach\ ([a^]m"f[i^]*br[a^]k), noun [L. ?, Gr. ? short at both ends; 'amfi' + brachy's short.] (Anc. Pros.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short ([crescent] -- [crescent]); as, h[a^]b[=e]r[e^]. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet"ic.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
amphibrach
noun: a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., 'remember')
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