Biology Root Word Test Flascards
Terms
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- a-
- No, Lacking , None
- ab-
- Away from
- ac-
- To, Toward
-
-aceous
-aceus - Of, or pertaining to
- ad-
- To, Toward
- adeno-
- Gland
- agri-
- field
- al-
- having the character of
- alb-
- white
- -algia
- pain
- alto
- high
- ameb-
- change, alteration
- amphibi
- leading a double life
-
ampho-
amb- - both
- an-
- not, without
- ana-
- up
- andro-
- masculine, men
- anemo-
- wind
- angio-
- vessel
- ante-
- before, ahead of time
- antero-
- Front
- Antho-
- Flower
- anti-
- against
- anthropo-
- Man
- ap-
- to, toward
- aqu-
- water
- archaeo
- primitive, ancient
- arthro
- jointed
-
aster-
astr- - stars
- -ate
- used in forming nouns from verbs
- atom
- vapor
- audi
- hear
- auto
- self
- bactr-
- stick club
- barb-
- beard
- baro
- weight
- bath
- depth, height
- bene
- well, good
- bi
- two
-
bio
bi- - life ,living
- blast
- sprout, germ
- brachi-
- having arms
- branchi
- having fins
- brev
- shorten
- bronch
- windpipe
- calor
- heat
- carb
- Carbon, coal
- cardi
- Heart
- Carn
- meat
- Carp
- fruit
- carpal
- wrist
- card ( actually i think its supposed to be caud)
- Tail
- cell
- chamber
- -cene
- recent, new
- centi
- hundredth
- centr
- center
- cephal
- head
- cervic
- neck
- chem
- referring to chemistry
- chlor
- green
- chrome
- color
- chym
- juice
- -cide
- killing
- circum
- around
- cirro
- hairlike curls
- co-
- together
- cocc
- seed
- coel
- hollow
- coll
- glue
- corn
- together
- con
- together
- coni
- cone
- contra
- against
- corp
- body
- cosmo
- world, other form
- cotyl
- cup
- counter
- against
- crypt
- hidden
-
-cule
-culus - added to noun to form diminutive
- cumul
- heaped
- cuti
- skin
- cycle
- circle
- cyst
- bladder, pouch
- cyt, cyte
- cell, receptable
- dactyl
- finger
- deca
- ten
- deci
- tenth
- deliquese
- become fluid
- demi
- half
- dentri
- tree
- dent
- tooth
- derm
- skin
- di-
- two
- dia
- through, across
- digit
- finger, toe
- din
- terrible
- dis
- apart
- dorm
- sleep
- dors
- back
- du, duo
- two
- duct
- lead
- dyan
- dark blue
- dynam
- power
- dys
- ill, bad
- ec-
- outside
- echin-
- spiny
- eco-
- house
- ect-
- outside,without
- -ectomy
- removal of
- electro
- electric
- em-
- made of
- emia
- blood
- en-
- in, into
- encephal
- brain
- end , ent
- within, in
- enter
- intestines
- -eous
- nature of, like
- epi
- on, above
- -err
- wanderrr
- erythro
- red
- ethno
- race
- eu
- well, good
- extra
- beyond
- ex
- out of
- fer
- bear carry produce
- ferro
- iron
- fibr
- fiber
- rid, fis
- split
- flect, flex
- bend
- flor
- flower
- fluor
- fluorine
- foli
- left
- fract
- break
- galact, galax
- milk
- gastro
- stomach
- geo
- land, earth
- gen, gine
- farmer, producer
- gene, gnee
- origin
- gest
- carry, produce
- glob
- round, all
- glottis
- mouth of windpipe
- glyco
- sweet
- -gon
- angle, corner
- gony
- generation, offspring, coming into being
- grade
- step division
- gram
- writing, record
- graph, graphy
- writing, record
- grav
- heavy
- gross
- thick
- gymno
- naked
- gyn
- female
- gry
- ring, circle, spiral
- haem, men
- blood
- hal, hale
- breath
- halo
- sea, salt
- -helminth
- worm
- hermi
- half
- hepat
- liver
- herb
- grass
- hetero
- different
- hex
- six
- hibern
- winter
- hipp
- horse
- hist
- tissue
- holo
- entire, whole
- homo
- man
- hort
- garden
- hybrid
- mongrel
- hydr
- water
- hygr
- moist, wet
- hypo
- beneath, under, less
- hyper
- above, beyond, over
- hypho
- weaving
- hypno
- sleep
- ia, iasis
- disease of, condition of
- ic
- added to noun to form adj.
- ichthy
- fish
- ion
- go, come
- im
- not
- in
- not
- ine
- of, pertaining to
- infra
- below, beneath
- inter
- within, inside
- ism
- a state or condition
- iso
- equal
- itis
- inflammation
- kilo
- thousand
- lachry
- tear
- lact
- milk
- lat
- side, flank
- -less
- without
- leuc
- white, bright, light
- lign
- wood
- lin
- line
- lingu
- tongue
- liqu
- become liquid or fluid
- lip
- fat
- lith, lite
- stone, petrifying
- loc
- place
- logy
- study
- lysis, lyte, lyst
- dissolve, decompose
- macro
- large
- malle
- hammer
- mamm
- breast
- marg
- border, edge
- mast
- breast
- med
- middle
- meg
- great, million
- mela, melan
- black, dark
- mes
- middle, half intermediate
- met, meta
- between, along after
- meteor
- lofty, high, in air
- meter, metry
- way of measuring , intrument for measuring
- micro
- small
- milli
- thousandth
- mis
- wrong, incorrect
- mole
- mass
- mono
- one, single
- mont
- mountain
- mort
- death
- mov, mot
- move
- morph
- shape, form
- multi
- many
- mycel
- threadlike
- mycet
- fungus
- myria
- many
- mell
- soft
- nas
- nose
- nemat
- thread
- neo
- new, recent
- nephro
- kidney
- ner
- moist, liquid
- neur, nero
- nerve, tendon
- noct, nox
- night