1. not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents; - Example: "when `until last Easter' serves as an adverb it is an exocentric construction"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
exocentric
adj 1: not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its
constituents; "when `until last Easter' serves as an
adverb it is an exocentric construction" [ant:
endocentric]