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Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun zeugma has 1 senses

   zeugma(n = noun.communication) - use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one; "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma"
is a kind of
figure, figure of speech, image, trope
has particulars: syllepsis


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

zeugma, n. [L., from Gr. , fr. to yoke, join. See Yoke.].

   A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, “hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;” where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

zeugma, n. a figure of speech using a verb or adjective with two nouns, to one of which it is strictly applicable while the word appropriate to the other is not used (e.g. with weeping eyes and

Derivative:
zeugmatic adj.

Etymology:
L f. Gk zeugma -atos f. zeugnumi to yoke, zugon yoke