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Definition of: epistrophe
(i·pis′trə·fē) noun
1. In rhetoric, that form of repetition in which successive clauses or sentences end with the same word.
2. A musical refrain.
3. Bot. The arrangement of chlorophyll granules (as on the upper and under walls of leaf cells) when exposed to diffused light. [<EPI- + Gk. strophe turning about]
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