asyntactic

asyntactic
/ay'sin tak"tik/, adj. Gram. (of compounds)
consisting of morphemes that are combined differently from their mode of combination as separate words in a phrase, as bookstore, which is an asyntactic compound, while the same elements are combined syntactically in store for books.
[1875-80; A-6 + SYNTACTIC]

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