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calypso
adjective
designating or of songs improvised and sung as originally by the native people of Trinidad: they are satirical ballads, usually topical, characterized by wrenched syllabic stress and syncopated rhythms
noun pl. calypsos
a calypso song or calypso music
noun
- in Homer's Odyssey, a sea nymph who keeps Odysseus on her island for seven years
- pl. Calypsos an orchid (Calypso bulbosa) growing in boggy regions of the Northern Hemisphere: its solitary pink flower has purple or yellow markings
See calypso in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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