A ante- before bi- two

a(n)- without antho- flower bi(ola)- life

ab- away from anthro- human blast- germ
abduc- lead from anti- against, opposite bore- north
acanth- prickle antr- cave botry- small bunch of grapes
acer- without horns apo- separate, from bov- ox
acetabul- vinegar cup aqua- water brachi- arm
aceto- acid aguilin- eagle-beaked brachy- short
acin- cluster of grapes arach- spider brady- slow
acri- acrid, sharp arbor- tree branch- gill
acro- summit, top arc- arch brevi- short
actin- ray arch(ae/i)- ancient brizo- to nod
acust- of hearing arct(i/o)- north, bear bromo- oats, broom, shadow
ad- towards are- space bronch- windpipe
adipo- fat areni- sandy bucca- mouth cavity
adventit- coming to arg(en/lyr)- silver bulbos- bulbous
aegopod- goat-foot arthro- joint bulla- bubble, flask
aestiv- summer artic- jointed bullat- wrinkled
affer- carrying to artio- even-numbered buno- hill
agrest- rural, wild arundin- reed-like bursa- pouch, purse
agro(st)- field asc- sac
al(i)- wing asper- rough C
alb- white aspid- shield caduci- temporary
allant- sausage ast(e)r- star caec- blind
allium garlic astrag- dice (originally a caerul- sky blue
alopec- fox knuckle bone) caespit- tufted
altissim- tall ater, atra- black calam- reed, aspen
alve- pit, socket Atlas= a Titan(mythical calc- stone
ambly- blunt giant) calli- beautiful
ambul- walk who supported the world on callos callous
ammo- sand his shoulders calor- heat
amnio- fetal envelope atr(ium)- vestibule calyx cup, chalice
amoeb- change Atropos= one of the Fates camp- field
amphi- both who campanula bell
amplex- clasping cut the thread of life cani- dog
ampulla- flask aur- ear, gold cap(it)- head
amygdala- almond shaped austral- southern capill- hair
organ auto- self capsella- small box
amyl- starch aux- grow card- heart
an- without avi- bird carin- keel
ana- up, back, again axi- axis cam- flesh
anatol- east azyg- unpaired carotid- producing stupor
Anagallis- delightful carp- seed, wrist
anchus- bend, bay B cary- nut
andr- male baca- small berry cata- down
anemo- wind baccatus- berried cauda- tail
angi- vessel baena- walking cav- hollow
angul- angle balan- acorn centi- hundred
angusti- narrow barb- beard ceph(al)- head
ankylo- stiff jointed basi- at the bottom cera(s)(t)- horn
annu- annual bat(is) skate, ray cerc- horns, lobes, short tail
anomo- lawless, irregular bdella- sucker cerebro- brain
anser- geese bell- pretty cerv- neck
ch(e)ir- hand cord- heart dissect- deeply cut
chaero- to please corium- leather dodeca- twelve
chaet- bristle corn- horn don't- tooth
chamae- on ground coron- crown dors- back
chel- turtle corp- body drom- quick running
cheno- goose cort- bark dubi- doubtful
chiasm- crossing cost- rib dulci- sweet
chil- lip cotyl- cup duo- two
chlamy- outer garment crani- skull dur- hard
chlor- green crass- thick
choan- funnel crep- shoe E
chondr- cartilage cribi- sieve echino- spiny
chord- cord cric- ring echis- viper
chorion membrane crispus curled eco- house
chrom- colour crist- crest ecto- outside
chrys- golden crosso- fringe, tassel effer- carrying away
chyl- fluid cru(rals)- shank effusus- loosely spreading
chym- juice cruci- cross-like ejacul- throw out
cili- eyelash crypt- hidden elasmo- plate, flat
ciner- ashen, grey cten- comb elat- tall
cipit- head cune-wedge -ell- diminutive
circum- around cusp- lance, point embio- living
cirr- tentacle (originally curl) cuti- skin embol- thrown in
cl(e)ist- closed cyan- blue endo- inside
clad- branch cycl- circular engy- narrow
clast- broken cyno- dog ensi- sword
clav- key cyst- capsule entolenter- inside
cleid- key cyt- cell eo- dawn, east
cleithr- bar, key epi- upon
clin- bed, recline D equi- horse, equal
cloaca sewer dactyl- finger erect- upright
coccus berry, grain dasy- shaggy erythr- red
cochl- shell deci- ten esculent- edible
coel- hollow decid- falling off ethm- sieve
col(on) large intestine decuss- cross banding eu- well, very
coll- neck deka- ten eury- wide
collat- borne together delph- womb ex- out of
columella little column delphis- dolphin exiguus- slender
com- with demi- half exo- outside
commis- sent out dendr- tree extens- draw out
communis- colonial dent- tooth extra- beyond
commutat- changed derm- skin extrins- coming from
compact- compact dero- persisting
compress- flattened desmo- band F
con- with deut- second fab- bean
conch- shell dextro- right falc- sickle-shaped
condyl- knuckle di(a)- two fallax- false
cono- cone dia- through fasc(ic)- bundle
contra- opposite didym- twin fatuus- foolish, useless
convolvo- to entwine digit- finger feli- cat
copro- dung dino- terrible fer- carry
cora(xlg)- raven diplo- double ficar- fig-like
corb- basket dipso- thirst fil- thread
fistul- hollow, tube hasta(t)- spear-tip shape
flacc- flabby hect- hundred jug- yoked together
flav- yellow heira- hawk jungoljunc- to bind
flexu- wavy helios- sun
flocculus- lock of wool helminth- worm ket- ketone
fluitans- floating helo- wart kilo- thousand
foen- hay hemi- half
foetid- foul smelling hepa(r/t)- liver L
foli- leaf hepta- seven labi- lips
fontan- fountain hetero- different labyrinth- tortuous passage
foramen- opening hex- six lacer- torn
fornix- vault hibem- winter lacrim- tears
fovea- shallow round hippo- horse lact- milk
depression hirsut- hairy lacuna- space
fruticans- shrubby hispid- bristly laevo- left
fund- to pour histri- actor lagena- flask
furc(ul)- fork holo- complete, whole lamella- leaf, layer
homo- man, same lan(at)- wool
G homal- flat lanceol(at)- lance-shaped
gale- weasel hormon- that which excites lati- broad
gall- of France hortens- of gardens lecith- egg yolk
gangli- knot humus- ground lemm- skin, husk
gano- shining hyal- glassy lens- lentil, bean
gast(e)r- stomach, pouch hydr- water leo(n)- lion
gemin- twins hyemal- winter lepid- scale
gemm- bud hyo- U-shaped lepto- slender
genu- knee, joint hyper- above leuc- white
geranium- crane hypo- beneath levator- lifter
gerro- shield lign- wood
gladi- sword I, J, K ligul- strap-shaped
glen- socket ichthy- fish lin- line
glia- glue -ida- like ling- tongue
glom(er)- half of yam -idae- ending of zoological lip- fat
glo(ss/tt)- tongue family names lith- stone
glut- sticky ileum- twisted log(y)- discourse
gl(uly)c- sweet impar- unpaired loph- crest
glypt- carved, engraved in- in, not lumen- cavity
gnaph- wool -in- diminutive luna- moon
gnath- jaw -inae- ending of zoological lupus wolf
goni- angle sub-family names lute- yellow
gono- seed incarnat- flesh coloured lymph- clear water
gracil- slender incis- cutting in lysis- loosen
gram- of grass incus- anvil
gymn- naked inermis- unarmed M
gyn- woman inflexis- rigid macr- large
gyr- turning infra- under macula- spot
inter- between magni- large
H intra- within maj- greater
haem- blood iod- violet mala- cheek
hal- salty -iola- diminutive malleus- hammer, mallet
hallu(x/ci)- big toe iris- rainbow mamma- breast
hamat- hook iso- equal mandib- lower jaw
haplo- single, simple iter- passage manu- hand
maritim- of the sea nona- nine ostrac shell
marsupium- pouch noth- spurious ot- ear
masseter- chewer notho- southern ovi- sheep
mast- nipple noto- back, south ovo- egg
mat(e)ri- mother nu(clx)- nut oxys, oxus- sharp, pointed
maxi- large nuch- back of neck
maxill- jaw nucle- little nut P
maxim- greatest nud- naked pachy- thick
meatus- passage nulli- none palae- old
medi- medium nutans- nodding palli(um)- mantle
medull- marrow pallid- pale
mega- large palustri- in marshes
mel(l)i- honey O pan- ali
melan- black obtect- concealed par(a)- near
menin(x,g)- membrane obturat- closed parie- wall
meno- moon obtusi- blunt parvi- little
mer- part occiden- Western patella- small dish
meso- middle occip- back of head patens- spreading
meta- after oct- eight pect(or)- chest
micro- small odont- tooth pectin- comb-like
milli- thousand odor- fragrant ped- foot, child
min- smaller oecious- house of pellucid- shining through
minim- smallest oed- swollen pene- almost
mirabile- wonderful oen- wine pent- five
miss- sent oesoph- gullet per(i)- through, beyond
mito- thread officinal- used in medicine peregrin- foreign
mixi- mingle -oid- like peri- around
moll- soft olecran- skull of elbow persic- peach
monil- string of beads oleo- oily petr- rock
mono- one olfact- smelling phaeo- dark
montan- of mountains oligo- few phag- eat
morph- form oliva- olive phalan(g/x)- close formation
motor- mover omaso- paunch of
multi- many oment- fat skin troops
mural- walls omm- eye phalar- shining
muri- mouse omo- shoulder phanero- visible
myo- muscle, mouse omphalo- navel pher- carry
myri- countless onto- existing phil- love
myx- mucous oo- egg phloe- tree bark
myz- sucker op(t)- eye phor- carry
operculum- little cover pho(s/to)- light
N ophi- snake phragm- fence
na(rls)- nose ophthalmo- eye phren- diaphragm, mind
necro- dead opistho- behind phyl- tribe
necto- swimming opoter- either phyll- leaf
nema- hair or- mouth physa- bladder
nemoral- in woods orbi- circle physio- nature
neo- new orch- testicle phyto- plant
nephr- kidney oriental- Eastern pil- hair
neur- nerve ornith- bird pinea- pine cone
nictitat- winking ortho- straight pinnat- feather-shaped
nigr- black os(ti)- mouth pisum- pea
non- not os(s/t)- bone pisc- fish
plac- plate, tablet pyro- heat, fire schizo- split
plagio- oblique pyrus- pear scler- hard
plan- flat scop- gaze, small owl,
platy- flat, broad Q, R broom,
plec(o/t)- twist, pluck quadr- four shadow
plesio- near quarter- four scut- shield
pleth- full quin(t/que)- five scyph- cup
pleur- side seba- tallow, wax
plex- interwoven rach- spine sect- cut
plica- fold radi- root segetum- in cornfields
plum- feather ram- branching selen- moon
pneu(mo/st)- air, lung ran- frog sella- saddle, seat
pod- foot rapa- turnip semi- half
pogo- beard raph- seam sept- seven, wall
polio- grey rect- straight ser(olu)- any body fluid
polit- polished reflex- bent back serot- late
poll(ex)- thumb ren- kidney serrat- saw-toothed
poly- many repens- crawling set- hair
pons- bridge reptans- crawling sex- six
porc- pig retic- network simi- monkey
porphyr- purple retina- little net sinus- hollow, bay
porta- gate retro- behind, backward sipho- tube
post- after rhabd- rod sol- sun
potam- river rhach- spine soma- body
potero- drinking cup rhage- tear, rent somni- sleep
praeco- early rhin- nose, snout specios- showy
pratens- in meadows rhiz- root sperm- seed
pre- before rhodo- red sphen- wedge
prim- first rhynch- snout sphinct- closing
pro- in front of -rrh- flow spinos- spiny
proct- anus rode- gnaw spondyl- vertebra
procumbens- lying flat rogos- wrinkled squalid- squalid
profund- deep rostr- beak, prow squam- scale
proliger- bear offspring rota- tum, wheel squarros- spreading at tips
prom- first rub(e)r- red stae(rlt)- fat
proso- front rumen- throat sta(silt)- standing
prostratus- lying flat steg- covering
prot- first S stell- star
prunus- plum sacchar- sugar steno- narrow
psamma- sand saccul- little sac stereo- solid
pseud- false sacr- sacred steril- sterile
psycho- mind sagitta- arrow stern- breastbone
psychro- cold sal- salt stom- mouth
pter- wing, fern sanguini- bloody strat- layer
ptyal- sahva sapon- soapy strept- twisted
pubescens- downy sarc- flesh strictus- upright, stiff
pubi- sexually mature sativus- cultivated strigos- having stiff bristles
pulmo- lung saur- lizard stroph- turning
pungens- pungent scala- ladder styl- column
pusill- very small scalene- uneven sub- below
pygo- rump scaph- anything hollow, sucr- sugar
pyl- gate bowl, sulc- furrow
pyo- pus ship super- beyond
supin- lying back trachy- rough ungui- nail, claw
supra- above trago- goat ungul- hoof, claw
sutur- seam trans- across urens- bum
sym- with trapez- four sided, table uro- tail
syn- with trema- hole urs- of bears
syrin(glx)- pipe tremulans- trembling utricul- little skin bag
sys- with tri- three uv(ela)- grapes
trich- hair
T trivialis- trivial vagina- sheath
tachy- fast troch- wheel vagus- wandering
tact- touch trop- turning vas- vessel
taenia- ribbon troph- feed velum- veil
talus- ankle tussi- cough ven- vein
tapetum- carpet ventr- belly
tard- late verd- green
tarsus- ankle veris- true
tect- covered verm- worm
tegmen- covering vern- spring
tel (e/o)- far, end versi- various
teleo- complete vesic- blister
temno- cut vesper- evening, western
tenacul- holding vill- shaggy hair, velvet
tentor- spread like a tent virens- green
tenuis- slender visc- organs of body cavity
ter(ti)- three vita- life
teres- round vitell- yolk
tetr- four vitr- glass
textilis- of textiles vora- devour
thalam- chamber, bed vulgaris- common
thalass- sea vulp- fox
theca- case
thel- nipple, female xanth- yellow
therm- heat xen- stranger
thero- breast, mammal U-Z xer- dry
thyreo- large shield uliginosus- in marshes xiphi- sword
tinctori- of dyes -ul- diminutive xyl- wood
torn- cut ulo- wooly
tomentos- densely woolly ultra- above zo- animal
torpe- numb umbilic- navel zon- girdle
toxo- arrow, dart un- one zyg- yoke
trab- beam unc- hook