polysemous

Some have dared to dream even bigger than polysemous aubergines.

Welles was at the time in the grip of the semioticians: everything was polyvalent, polysemous, above all polysyllabic.

In an article this month for the New Yorker, Jill Lepore also seemed to struggle with the polysemous nature of comics.

“It’s kind of, like, you go to the beach,” she said, indicating another polysemous garment, “and wear it with something like that.”