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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 am·phi·brach /ˈæm(p)fəˌbræk/
 抑揚抑格;短長短路

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Am·phi·brach n.  Anc. Pros. A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (☺ -- ☺); as, hăbērĕ. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet˝ic.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 amphibrach
      n : a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed
          syllables (e.g., `remember')