latin root words for biology
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- ology
- study of
- photo
- light
- cyto
- cell
- bio
- life
- chrono
- time
- a(n)
- without
- mono
- one
- di
- two
- ab-
- away from: out from
- anti-
- against
- calor-
- heat
- anthro-
- human-like
- arterio
- having to do with arteries
- cell-
- room; chamber
- -ate
- used in forming verbs from nouns
- poly
- many
- audio-
- hear
- auto-
- self
- bi-
- two: twice, double
- chlor-
- green
- bio-
- life; living; life process
- erectus
- upright
- cardi-
- heart
- carb-
- carbon
- carn-
- meat
- chryso-
- golden
- alb-
- white
- caudal-
- tail
- amphi-
- of both kinds, has two uses
- antho-
- flower-like
- cephal-
- head
- arthro-
- jointed, has joints
- -cretion
- process of separating
- -chiro
- hand
- cyan-
- blue
- -ation
- process:used in forming nouns from verbs
- chromo-
- color
- -coccus
- berry-shaped, round
- -cyt, cyte
- cell
- bronch-
- windpipe
- coel-
- hollow
- deca-
- ten
- deci
- tenth
- cyclo-
- circular
- dent-, dont-
- teeth
- -derma-
- skin
- di-
- two; double
- dia-
- through, across
- dissect
- cut
- dors-
- back
- echin-
- spiny, prickly
- ect-
- outside
- en-
- in
- electro-
- having to do with electricity
- encephal-
- brain
- endo-
- inside
- epi-
- on; above, surface
- erythro-
- red
- exo-
- outside
- -formi
- in the form of
- -fuge
- drive away or out
- gastro-
- stomach
- gene-
- origin; birth
- -gestion
- to carry
- glottis
- mouth or windpipe
- -graph
- draw; write
- gymno-
- naked
- hemi-
- partial; half
- hepat-
- liver
- hetero-
- different
- hexa-
- six
- hiber-
- winter
- homo-
- same
- hydro-
- water
- hymen-
- membrane
- hyper-
- above; excess
- hypo-
- below; less than, beneath
- inter-
- between; among
- intra-
- inside, within
- -ism
- a state or condition
- -itis
- swelling or inflamation
- kilo-
- one thousand
- lepid-
- scale
- leuco-
- white
- -logy
- study of
- -lysis
- break up, destruction
- macro-
- large, enlarge
- magni-
- great
- mallo-
- to grind or chew
- maniple
- handful
- mega-
- one million
- meter
- a measure
- micro-
- small; one millionth
- mono-
- single; one
- multi-
- many
- non-
- not
- octo-
- eight
- oculo-
- having to do with the eyes, vision
- odont-
- tooth
- olf-
- smell
- -ology
- study of
- omni-
- all
- ophthal-
- eye
- opti-
- eyes; vision
- ortho
- straight, regular
- -osis
- condition; state
- osteo-
- bony
- ov-
- egg
- pachy-
- five
- period
- regularly occuring event
- -phage
- eat or consume
- -phoresis
- carrying, transmission
- photo-
- light
- -phyll
- leaf
- -phyte
- plant
- -plasm
- fluid substance
- -plast
- living material
- platy-
- broad; flat
- pneumo-
- lungs
- -pod
- of or relating to feet
- -pre
- before; ahead of time
- pro-
- before; in front of
- proto-
- first
- pseud-
- fake; false
- pteron
- wing; feather
- quadri-
- four
- rhodo-
- red
- rhyn-
- nose
- sarco-
- fleshy; consisting of muscle tissue
- sclero-
- hard
- -scope
- look; observe
- semi-
- partly; partially
- -some
- body
- sperm-
- seed
- stereo-
- solid; firm, three dimentional
- synthesis
- putting together, form a unit
- therm-
- heat
- thysan-
- tassel
- trans-
- across
- tri-
- three
- trich-
- hair, filament
- trop-
- turning
- -troph
- food
- ultra-
- beyond, excessive
- uni-
- one
- -ura
- tail
- ventr-
- belly
- zoo
- relating to animals
- geo
- related to the earth
- kinesis
- to separate