You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
EPENTHESIS
epenthesis
(noun) the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier; “the insertion of a vowel in the plural of the word ‘bush’ is epenthesis”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
epenthesis (countable and uncountable, plural epentheses)
(phonetics, prosody) The insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually to satisfy the phonological constraints of a language or poetic context.
Hypernyms
• metaplasm
Hyponyms
• excrescence
• anaptyxis
• svarabhakti
• vyanjanabhakti
Coordinate terms
• paragoge
• prothesis
Source: Wiktionary
E*pen"the*sis, n.; pl. Epentheses. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Gram.)
Definition: The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in "nimble" from AS. nemol.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PARSIMONIOUS
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