meta
adjective
pertaining to or noting a story, conversation, character, etc., that consciously references or comments upon its own subject or features, often in the form of parody.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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It is now and then stated that the metae between strips have been plowed up.
From The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction by Harriett Bradley