Rhopalic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rhopalic \Rho*pal"ic\, a. [Gr. ???? club-shaped; fr. ??? a club:
     cf. F. rhopalique.] (Pros.)
     Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has
     one more syllable than the preceding.
     [1913 Webster]