°(US prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short and one long (e.g the word "velveteen").
°(US prosody) A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter; e.g. “Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, did NOT!” ( aka Theodor Geisel).