Glossary of Word Roots
Terms
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- a
- not, without
- ab
- away from
- aleuron
- flour
- andr
- male
- angio
- box, vessel
- anth
- flower
- antheros
- flowery
- anti
- against
- apertur
- opening, hole
- api
- tip, apex
- arche
- beginning
- asco
- sac
- ate
- provided with, formed into
- auto
- self
- basidio
- small base
- bi
- two, double
- cap
- head
- capill
- hair
- carp
- fruit
- caul
- stem
- cephal
- head
- chloro
- green
- chrom
- color
- cid
- cut, kill
- circ
- circle
- cleisto
- closed
- coll
- glue
- coma
- hair
- cyan
- dark blue
- cyst
- bladder, bag
- cyt
- cell
- dendr
- tree
- dent
- tooth
- derm
- skin
- di
- two, separate
- dictyo
- net
- dichotomos
- cut into two
- el
- diminutive ending
- endo
- inside
- epi
- upon
- equinus
- horse
- erythr
- red
- eu
- true, good
- ex
- from, beyond
- exo
- outside
- fer
- bearer
- fil
- thread-like
- fissio
- splitting
- flagellum
- whip
- flav
- yellow
- flor
- flower
- fol
- leaf
- fungus
- mushroom
- funiculus
- a small cord
- gamet
- spouse, sex cell
- gamo
- union, marriage
- gen
- origin, birth
- genus
- race
- geo
- earth
- glab
- bald
- gland
- secrectory spot
- glut
- glue
- gymn
- naked
- gyn
- female
- habitus
- condition, physique
- hal
- salt
- hemi
- half
- hetero
- other, different
- hex
- six
- holo
- entire
- homo
- same, alike
- hydro
- water
- hyph
- web
- hypo
- below
- idion
- diminutive ending
- il
- diminutive ending
- infra
- below
- inter
- between
- intra
- within
- iso
- equal, homogenous
- karyron
- nut, nucleus
- lab
- lip
- lamel
- plate, layer
- lamin
- blade
- lance
- lance, blade
- leuco
- white
- lig
- strap, ribbon
- lith
- stone
- loc
- a small place, cell
- ligne
- wood
- logos
- discourse, study
- macro
- large, long
- mega
- large
- meiosis
- reduction
- meri
- part, segment, component
- meso
- middle
- micro
- small, tiny
- mitos
- thread
- mono
- one, single
- morph
- form, structure
- myco
- fungus, mushroom
- myx
- slime
- nat
- born, borne
- nom
- name
- ode
- like
- oec
- household
- oid
- like
- ol
- little
- orth
- straight
- ostiol
- little door
- oön
- egg
- ov
- egg
- paleo
- ancient
- palm
- hand
- palustr
- swamp
- para
- beside
- pect
- comb
- ped, pod
- foot, stalk
- pelt
- shield
- per
- through, by means of
- peri
- around
- phellos
- cork
- phil
- love
- phloos
- bark
- phore
- bearer
- phyle
- tribe
- phyll
- leaf
- phyco
- seaweed
- phyte
- plant
- pinn
- feather
- plast
- thing molded
- ploid
- fold
- plume
- feather
- pneum
- lung, air, gas
- poly
- many, much
- por
- small opening
- prim
- first
- pro
- before
- protiston
- the very first
- proto
- first, original
- pseud
- false
- psilos
- bare, mere
- pterid
- fern
- pyle
- gate
- rad
- root
- phodon
- rose color
- ros
- rose
- sagitt
- arrow
- sapro
- rotten
- schiz
- deeply divided
- scis
- cut
- sect
- cut
- semi
- half
- septum
- partition, wall, enclosure
- sessilis
- fit for sitting
- soma
- body
- soros
- heap
- species
- kind
- sperm
- seed
- sphen
- wedge
- sporo
- seed, spore
- stell
- star
- strobilos
- twisted object, top, pinecone
- stome
- mouth
- stroma
- cushion, mattress
- stylo
- pillar
- sub
- under, less than
- super, supar
- above, over
- syn, sym
- together, with, at the same time
- taxis
- arrangement, order
- terra
- earth
- tetra
- four
- thall
- shoot
- tri
- three
- trichom
- hair
- trop
- bend
- troph
- nourish, food
- tuber
- knob, swelling
- ul
- little
- uni
- one
- vor
- eat
- xanthos
- yellow
- xer
- dry
- xylon
- wood
- zygo
- yoke, pair