Sapphic

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of or relating to the Greek poet Sappho.
• adjective Of, relating to, or being a verse characteristic of Sappho, containing 11 syllables and consisting of a trochee, a spondee or trochee, a dactyl, a trochee, and a spondee or trochee.
• adjective Relating to or being a stanza of three such verses followed by a verse consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.
• adjective Relating to or being an ode made up of such stanzas.
• adjective Of, relating to, or being a verse, stanza, or poem in accentual-syllabic meter composed in imitation of Sapphic quantitative verse.
• noun A Sapphic meter, verse, stanza, or ode.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Of or pertaining to Sappho, a Greek lyric poetess of Lesbos (about 600 b. c.), famed for the beauty and passionateness of her poems; in prosody, noting various meters used by the poetess Sappho. See phrases below.
• noun A Sapphic verse: used especially of the Lesser Sapphic verse (hendecasyllabic), and, in the plural, of the Lesser Sapphic system.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Pros.) A Sapphic verse.
• adjective Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess.
• adjective (Pros.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Relating to the Greek poetess Sappho from Lesbos or her poetry.
• adjective Alternative capitalization of sapphic: relating to lesbianism; lesbian.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective a meter used by Sappho and named after her
• adjective of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman