Usually means: Verse form characterized by lasciviousness.
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  1. Priapean, priapean: Merriam-Webster
  2. priapean: Collins English Dictionary
  3. priapean: Wordnik
  4. Priapean: Wiktionary
  5. priapean: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Priapean, priapean: Dictionary.com
  7. Priapean: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. priapean: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Priapean: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. priapean: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Priapean: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. Priapean: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. priapean: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (Priapean)

adjective:  (Greek mythology) Of or relating to Priapus or Priapos (Ancient Greek: Πρίαπος), a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens, and male genitalia.
noun:  (poetry) A kind of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three metrical feet each, generally having a trochee in the first and fourth feet and an amphimacer in the third; applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.

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