"melismatic" meaning in English

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          "text": "Because slower metrical types are more melismatic and ornamented than primary-meter, their melodic-passages in both xipi and erhuang are more melismatic and complex than those of primary-meter.",
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          "text": "The melismatic content of this chant lies at the extreme of what is typical for responsories, usually considered among the most melismatic chant types.",
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          "sense": "of, relating to, or being a melisma",
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