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Glossary of Word Roots

Terms

undefined, object
copy deck
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

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