Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy');
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Polysyndeton \Pol`y*syn"de*ton\, n. [NL., from Gr. poly`s many +
? bound together, fr. ? to bind together; ? with + ? to
bind.] (Rhet.)
A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in
the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores."
Opposed to asyndeton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
polysyndeton
n 1: using several conjunctions in close succession, especially
where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and
laughed for joy')