ABC | DEF | GHI | JKL | MNO | PQR | STU | VWX | YZ
a = without (prefix), negative ab = from, opposite abysso= extreme depths acanth = spine actin = ray ad = to, toward adipo = fat affer = carry to, bear inward ala = wing alb = white alveoli = pit, cavity amnio = fetal sac amphi = on both sides, both ampulla = a flask an = without andr = male anell = a little ring angio = enclosed aniso = opposite ante = in front of antho = flower anthro = human anti = opposite, against aqua = water arach = spider, spiderweb arbor = tree arch = primitive arthro = joint artio = even asco = cup-like ase = an enzyme aster = star ater (atra) = black aud = to hear, hearing auri = ear auto = self avi = bird B basi = at the bottom bathy = very deep bdella = sucker bio (bios)= life bi (bis) = two blast = germ cell brachi = arm brachy = short brady = slow branch = gill, lung bronch = windpipe bucc= cavity of mouth bursa = pouch C caec = blind caly = covering campanula = bell canth = spine capit = head capill = hair card = heart carin = keel, breastbone carn = flesh -carp = spore case caud = tail cephal = head cera = horn cerebr = brain cerv = neck cest = girdle ceta = whale chaet = bristle, spine chel = claw choan = funne chondr = cartilage chlor = green chord = cord chrom = color chrys = golden cili = eyelash cirri = small tentacle clitor = to close cloaca = sewer cnid = nettle coel = hollow com = together conch = shell corn = horn corp = body cotyl = embryonic leaf crani = skull crusta = crust, shell crypt = hidden cten = comb cusp = lance., point cuti = skin -cuel = circular cyan = blue-green cyst = capsule cyt = cell -dae = family dactyl = finger de = from, away, down deca = ten demi = half den = tooth dendr = tree or bush derm = skin di = twice, second dia = apart digit = finger or to edin = terrible or whirling diplo = double don = tooth dors = back duo = two, twice E -eal = pertaining to echin = spiny eco = house ect = outside, outer ef = away ejacul = throw out embol = inserted encephalon = brain end = inner engy = narrow enter = inside entom = an insect epi = upon erythr = red eu = advanced, typical eury = wide range of tolerance ex = outside, from extra = beyond F fasc = bundle fenestr = window fer = to bear, carry fili = thread flex = bend foramen = opening (small) foss = ditch gam = marriage, a joining gaster = stomach gangli = knot in string gen = descent, generate; also knee, cheek, chin glia = glue (like) gly = sugar-containing glom = ball of yarn gloss = tongue gnath = jaw gono (gona)= sex organ gymn = naked gyn = female H haem = blood hali = salt-tolerant helminth = worm hemi = half hepat = liver herp = creeping hetero = different or other hex = six hipp = horse histo = tissue holo = complete hom = like homo = the same; human, man hyal = glass-like hydr = water hyper = high activity,above,over hypo = low activity, below,under I ichth = fish -ida = like -idia = little insect = to cut in, divide inter = between intra = inside, within iso = equal itis = inflammation of K kary = fusion kin = moving L lab = lip lacuna = space, void lamella = leaf layer lepi = scale -lemma = membrane leuc = white liga = to tie together lith = stone log (logy)= treatise, study lumen = cavity lumin = light-producing lutea = yellow lys = to kill; a dissolution macro = great, large macula = spot magni = large mastig = whip major = larger mamma = breast maxilla = upper jaw medull = marrow mela = dark mening = membrane mer = part, unit meso = middle meta = after micro = small mit = thread moll = soft mono = single, one morph = form muco = slimy, mucus multi = many mus = mouse myce (myco)= fungus myo = muscle myst = moustache N nao = dwarf narc = drugged, drug-like necro = death nema = thread nephr = kidney neur = nerve nidus = nest nom = law node = thickened area noto = back nudi = naked O -oid = like ocel = eye odont = teeth oesoph = gullet olfact = smelling oligo = few oment = fatty skin oo = egg ophi = snake opthalm = eye opercul = little cover opt = eye, vision orb = circle oral = mouth ornith = bird ortho = straight os = mouth -ose = a sugar -osis = increase of oss (ost) = bone osti = mouth ostrac = shell oti (oto) = ear ovum = egg pachy = thick palae = ancient palmate = webbed papil = nipple par = birth para = beside, near pariet = wall parv = small pect = breast ped = foot peduncl = little foot pelecy = hatchet penis = tail, penis pente = five peri = around perisso = odd perenni = permanent petr = rock phaeo = brown phago = eat phil = loving, liking phor = carry photo = light phragm = fence, partition phyl = tribe, group phyl = leaf physa = bladder physio = nature phyte = plant pino = to drink pili = hair pinna = feather plac = plate, tablet plan = flat, plane plantar = sole of foot plasm = fluid, forming plast = rod-shaped body platy = flat, broad pleio = multiple pleur = side plex = interwoven plica = fold ploid = chromosome # plume = feather pneumo = air, breathing pod = foot poly = many pollex = thumb pons = bridge porta = gate post = behind,after pre = before prim = first pro = in front, toward process = to project from proct = anus profund = deep proto = first prox = nearby pseud = false ptero = wing, fin pulmo = lung pychn = pressure pyg = rump Q quad = four quat = four quint = five R rami = branch renal = kidney rete = little net retro = back, backward rhabd = rod rhach = spine rhage = tear, rent rhin = nos rhiz = root rhodo = red rhomb = square rhynch = snout rodo = gnaw rostrum = beak, prow rota = turn, wheel sacch = sugar saggi = mid-line sapr = decaying matter sarc = flesh saur = lizard scaph = hollow schizo = cleft, split scler = hard scrot = pouch scut = shield scypho = cup sect = cut semi = half, part sept = seven, wall ser = fluid on body serra = saw set = bristle sex = six sinus = hollow sol = sun soma = body spanch = viscera sperm = seed,semen sphict = closing spira = coiling sporo = spore-producing squam = scale, flattened steg = covering stell = star sten = narrow stom = mouth striet = narrow bands styl = column sub = under, below sulc = groove, furrow super = above syn (sym) = together,partnership T tachy = fast tact = touch taenia = band, ribbon tax = to arrange teleo = complete, perfect tele = far end tentacul = holding terti = third test = shell testis = male gonad tetra = four theca = case thermo = heat thero = beast, mammal thromb = clot tom = piece or section cut toti = all, total trach = tube trans = across trema = hole tri = three trich = hair trop = turning troph = food, feeding tympan = drum U ultra = beyond unc = hook ungul = hoof, claw uni = one, single uro = tail, excretory uter = womb vagina = sheath vague = wandering venter = belly verm = worm vesti = rudimentary vita = life vitell = yolk vitro = glass viv = alive volv = turning, womb vors = devour W X xero = drought-tolerant xyl = wood Z zon = girdle zoo (zoa) = animal zyg = yoke