Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit; 
[syn: syntagma, syntagm]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
syntagm
    n 1: a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some
         larger syntactic unit [syn: syntagma, syntagm]