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You're welcome, dub-dub. Not sure how many English professors it takes to reverse a binomial, and some of their math colleagues may take issue with hijacking one of their terms, but it should be fun and besides the mouthfullness of the moniker most folks quickly understand what you're talking about. The Indian (Sanskrit) Grammarians studied compounds in depth, and I've always loved their technical terms for two different kinds of compounds: dvandva 'pair, couple' (called by Whitney copulative compounds, i.e., two words smashed together that would normally be connected by a conjunction) and bahuvrihi '(possessing) much rice' (or possessive compounds). I was surprised to see that bahuvrihi is listed in the A-H. The example they give is high-fiber diet, with high-fiber being a bahuvrihi compound, as in a diet possessing (or consisting) of high fiber.
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