Gigantic Biology Prefix and Suffix Test
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- a-;an-
- not, without, lacking, deficient
- ab-
- away from, out from
- -al
- having the character of
- alb-
- white
- alg-, -algia
- pain
- alto-
- high
- ambi-
- both
- ameb-
- change, alteration
- amni-
- fetal membrane
- amphi-, ampho-
- both
- amyl-
- starch
- ana-
- up, back, again
- andro-
- msn, masculine
- anemo-
- wind
- ang-
- choke, feel pain
- angi-
- blood vessel, duct
- ante-
- before, ahead of time
- anter-
- front
- antho-
- flower
- anti-
- against, opposite
- agri-
- field, soil
- aero-
- air
- adip-
- fat
- aden-
- gland
- ad-
- to, toward
- acou-, acous-
- hear
- -aceous
- of or pertaining to
- ac-
- to, toward
- -able
- capable of
- anthropo-
- man, human
- -ap-, -aph-
- touch
- apo-, ap-
- away from
- aqu-
- water
- archaeo-
- primitive, ancient
- -ary, -arium
- denotes a place for something
- arteri-
- artery
- arthr-
- joint, articulation
- -ase
- forms names of enzymes
- aster-, astr-
- star
- -ate
- verb form - the act of...
- ather-
- fatty deposit
- -ation
- noun form - the act of...
- atmo-
- vapor
- audi-
- hear
- aur-
- ear
- auto-
- self
- bacter-, bactr-
- bacterium, stick, club
- barb-
- beard
- baro-
- weight
- bath-
- depth, height
- bene-
- well, good
- bi- (Latin)
- two, twice
- bi-, bio- (Greek)
- life, living
- -blast
- sprout, germ, bud
- brachi-
- arm
- brachy-
- short
- brady-
- slow
- branchi-
- fin
- brev-
- short
- bronch-
- windpipe
- cac-
- bad
- calor-
- heat
- capill-
- hair
- capit-
- head
- carcin-
- cancer
- cardi-
- heart
- carn-
- meat, flesh
- carp-
- fruit
- carpal-
- wrist
- cata-
- breakdown, downward
- caud-
- tail
- -cell-
- chamber, small room
- cen-, -cene
- now, recent
- cente-
- pierce
- centi-
- hundredth
- centr-
- center
- cephal-
- head
- cerat-
- horn
- cerebr-
- brain
- cervic-
- neck
- chel-
- claw
- chem-
- dealing with chemicals
- chir-
- hand
- chlor-
- green
- chondr-
- cartilage
- chrom-, -chrome
- color
- chron-
- time
- -chym-
- of or pertaining 2 sum ice cream
- -cid-, -cis-
- cut, kill, fall
- circa-, circum-
- around, about
- cirru-
- hairlike curls
- co-
- with, together
- cocc-
- seed, berry
- coel-
- hollow
- coll-
- glue
- coni-
- cone
- contra-
- against
- corp-
- body
- cort-, cortic-
- outer layer
- cosmo-
- world, order, form
- cotyl-
- cup
- counter-
- against
- crani-
- skull
- cresc-, cret-
- begin to grow
- crypt-
- hidden, covered
- -cul, -cule
- small, diminutive
- cumul-
- heaped
- cuti-
- skin
- cyan-
- blue
- -cycle, cycl-
- ring, circle
- -cyst-
- sac, pouch, bladder
- cyt-, -cyte
- cell, hollow container
- dactyl-
- finger
- de-
- away from, down
- deca-
- ten
- deci-
- tenth
- deliquesc-
- become fluid
- demi-
- half
- dendr-
- tree
- dent-
- tooth
- derm-
- skin
- di-, dipl- (Latin)
- two, double
- di-, dia- (Greek)
- through, across, apart
- dia- (Latin)
- day
- digit-
- finger, toe
- din-
- terrible
- dis-
- apart, out
- dorm-
- sleep
- dors-
- back
- du-, duo-
- two
- -duct
- lead
- dynam-
- power
- dys-
- bad, abnormal, difficult
- ec-
- out of, away from
- echin-
- spiny, prickly
- eco-
- house
- ecto-
- outside of
- -elle
- small
- -emia
- blood
- en-, endo-, ent-
- in, into, within
- -en
- made of
- encephal-
- brain
- enter-
- intestine, gut
- entom-
- insects
- -eous
- nature of, like
- epi-
- upon, above, over
- -err-
- wander, go astray
- erythro-
- red
- -escent
- becoming
- eso-
- inward, within, inner
- eu-
- well, good, true, normal
- eury-
- widen
- ex-
- out of, away from
- extra-
- beyond, outside
- -fer-
- bear, carry, produce
- ferro-
- iron
- fibr-
- fiber, thread
- -fid, fiss-
- split, divided into
- -flect, -flex
- bend
- flor-
- flower
- flu-, fluct-, flux
- flow
- foli-
- leaf
- fract-
- break
- -gam-
- marriage
- gastr-
- stomach
- geo-
- land, earth
- -gen, -gine
- producer, former
- -gene-
- origin, birth
- -gest-
- carry, produce, bear
- -glen-
- eyeball
- -glob-
- ball, round
- gloss-
- tongue
- gluc-, glyc-
- sweet, sugar
- glut-
- buttock
- gnath-
- jaw
- -gon
- angle, corner
- -grad-
- step
- -gram, graph
- record, writing
- grav-
- heavy
- -gross-
- thick
- gymno-
- naked, bare
- gyn-
- female
- gyr-
- ring, spiral, circle
- -hal-, -hale
- breathe, breath
- halo-
- salt
- hapl-
- simple
- hecto-
- hundred
- -helminth-
- worm
- hem-
- blood
- hemi-
- half
- hepar-, hepat-
- liver
- herb-
- grass, plants
- hetero-
- different, other
- hex-
- six
- hibern-
- winter
- hidr-
- sweat
- hipp-
- horse
- hist-
- tissue
- holo-
- entire, whole
- homo- (Latin)
- man, human
- homo- (Greek)
- same, alike
- hort-
- garden
- hydr-
- water
- hygr-
- moist, wet
- hyper-
- above, beyond, over
- hyph-
- weaving, web
- hypno-
- sleep
- hypo-
- below, under, less
- hyster-
- womb, uterus
- -iac
- person afflicted with a disease
- -iasis
- disease, abnormal condition
- -ic
- (adjective former) former being disease
- ichthy-
- fish
- ign-
- fire
- in-, il-, im-, ir-
- not OR to, toward, into
- in-
- very, thoroughly
- -ine
- of or pertaining to
- infra-
- below, beneath
- inter-
- between
- intra-
- within, inside
- -ism
- a state or condition
- iso-
- same, equal
- -ist
- person who deals with
- -itis
- inflammation, disease
- -ium
- refers to a part of the body
- -kary-
- cell nucleus
- kel-
- tumor, swelling
- kerat-
- horn
- kilo-
- thousand
- kine-
- move
- lachry-
- tear
- lact-
- milk
- lat-
- side
- leio-
- smooth
- -less
- without
- leuc-, leuk-
- white, bright, light
- lign-
- wood
- lin-
- line
- lingu-
- longue
- lip-
- fat
- lith-, -lite
- stone, petrifying
- loc-
- place
- -log-
- word, speech
- -logist
- one who studies
- -logy
- study of
- lumin-
- light
- -lys-, -lyt-, -lyst
- decompose, split, dissolve
- macr-
- large
- malle-
- soft
- mamm-
- breast
- marg-
- border, edge
- mast-
- breast
- med-
- middle
- meg-
- million, great
- mela-, melan-
- dark, black
- -mer
- part
- mes-
- middle, intermediate
- met-, meta-
- between, along, after
- -meter, -metry
- measurement
- micro-
- small, millionth
- milli-
- thousandth
- mis-
- wrong, incorrect
- mito-
- thread
- mole-
- mass
- mono-
- one, single
- mort-
- death
- -mot-
- move
- morph-
- shape, form
- multi-
- many
- mut-
- change
- my-
- muscle
- myc-
- fungus
- mycel-
- threadlike
- myria-
- many
- moll-
- soft
- nas-
- nose
- necr-
- corpse, dead
- nemat-
- thread
- neo-
- new, recent
- nephro-
- kidney
- -ner-
- moist, liquid
- neur-
- nerve
- noct-, nox-
- night
- -node
- knot
- -nom-, -nomy
- ordered knowledge, law
- non-
- not
- not-
- back
- nuc-
- center
- ob-
- against
- ocul-
- eye
- oct-
- eight
- odont-
- tooth
- -oid
- form, appearance
- olf-
- smell
- oligo-
- few, little
- -oma
- abnormal condition, tumor
- omni-
- all
- onc-
- mass, tumor
- oo-
- egg
- opthalm-
- eye
- opt-
- eye
- orb-
- circle, round, ring
- -orium, -ory
- place for something
- ornith-
- bird
- orth-
- straight, correct, right
- oscu-
- mouth
- -osis
- abnormal condition
- oste-
- bone
- oto-
- ear
- -ous
- full of
- ov-
- egg
- oxy-
- sharp, acid, oxygen
- pachy-
- thick
- paleo-
- old, ancient
- palm-
- broad, flat
- pan-
- all
- par-, para-
- beside, near, equal
- path-, -pathy
- disease, suffering
- -ped-
- foot OR child
- pent-
- five
- per-
- through
- peri-
- around
- permea-
- pass, go
- phag-
- eat
- pheno-
- show
- -phil-
- loving, fond of
- phon-, -phone
- sound
- -phore, pher-
- bear, carry
- photo-
- light
- phren-
- mind, diaphragm
- phyc-
- seaweed, algae
- phyl-
- related group
- -phyll
- leaf
- physi-
- nature, natural qualities
- phyt-, -phyte
- plant
- pino-
- drink
- pinni-
- feather
- plan-
- roaming, wandering
- plasm-, -plast-
- formed into, form
- platy-
- flat
- pleur-
- lung, rib, side
- pneumo-
- lungs, air
- -pod
- foot
- poly-
- many, several
- por-
- opening
- port-
- carry
- post-
- after, behind
- pom-
- fruit
- pre-
- before, ahead of time
- prim-
- first
- pro-
- forward, favoring, before
- proto-
- first, primary
- pseudo-
- false, deceptive
- psych-
- mind
- pter-
- having wings or fins
- pulmo-
- lung
- puls-
- drive, push
- pyr-
- heat, fire
- quadr-
- four
- quin-
- five
- radi-
- ray
- re-
- again, back
- rect-
- right, correct
- ren-
- kidney
- ret-
- net, made like a net
- rhag-, -rrhage
- burst forth
- rhe-, -rrhea
- flow
- rhin-
- nose
- rhiz-
- root
- rhodo-
- rose
- roto-
- wheel
- rubr-
- red
- sacchar-
- sugar
- sapr-
- rotten
- sarc-
- flesh
- saur-
- lizard
- schis-, schiz-
- split, divide
- sci-
- know
- scler-
- hard
- -scop-
- look for, device for seeing
- -scribe, -script
- write
- semi-
- half, partly
- sept-
- partition, seven
- -septic
- infection, putrefaction
- sess-
- sit
- sex-
- six
- -sis
- condition, state
- sol-
- sun
- solv-
- loosen, free
- som-, somat-, -some
- body
- somn-
- sleep
- son-
- sound
- spec-, spic-
- look at
- -sperm-
- seed
- -spher-
- ball, round
- spir-, -spire
- breathe
- -spor-
- seed
- stat-, -stasis
- sanding, placed, staying
- stell-
- stars
- sten-
- narrow
- stern-
- chest, breast
- stom-, -stome
- mouth
- strat-
- layer
- stereo-
- solid, 3-dimensional
- strict-
- drawn tight
- styl-
- pillar
- sub-
- under, below
- super-, sur-
- over, above, on top
- sym-, syn-
- together
- tachy-
- quick, swift
- tarso-
- ankle
- tax-
- arrange, put in order
- tele-
- far off, distant
- telo-
- end
- terr-
- earth, land
- tetr-
- four
- thall-
- young shoot
- -the-, -thes-
- put
- -thel-
- cover a surface
- -therm-
- heat
- -tom-
- cut, slice
- toxico-
- poison
- top-
- place
- trache-
- windpipe
- trans-
- across
- tri-
- three
- trich-
- hair
- -trop-
- turn, change
- -troph-
- nourishment, one who feeds
- turb-
- whirl
- -ul-, -ule
- diminutive, small
- ultra-
- beyond
- uni-
- one
- ur-
- urine
- -ura
- tail
- vas-
- vessel
- vect-
- carry
- ven-, vent-
- come
- ventr-
- belly, underside
- -verge
- turn, slant
- vig-
- strong
- vit-, viv-
- life
- volv-
- roll, wander
- -vor-
- devour, eat
- xanth-
- yellow
- xero-
- dry
- xyl-
- wood
- zo-, -zoa
- animal
- zyg-
- joined together
- zym-
- yeast