■ noun Prosody a hexameter consisting of five dactyls and either a spondee or trochee, in which any of the first four dactyls, and sometimes the fifth, may be replaced by a spondee.
DACTYLIC HEXAMETER
Meaning of DACTYLIC HEXAMETER in English
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004