Usually means: Poetic feet with unstressed, stressed syllables.
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  1. iambuses: Collins English Dictionary
  2. iambuses: Vocabulary.com
  3. iambuses: Wiktionary
  4. Iambuses, iambuses: Dictionary.com
  5. Iambuses: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Iambuses: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. iambuses: FreeDictionary.org
  8. iambuses: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. iambuses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  10. iambuses: Merriam-Webster

(Note: See iamb as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (iamb)

noun:  (prosody) A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
▸ Also see iamb


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