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1. † aggregato-, comb. form View full entry 1846

...Forming adjectives with the sense ‘aggregately, in an aggregate manner’, as aggregato-gemmate, aggregato-glomerate....

2. angulato-, comb. form View full entry 1852

...comb. Latin angulātus used advb. = angulately; as in angulato-gibbousangulato-sinuous...

3. anguloso-, comb. form View full entry 1848

...comb. Latin angulōsus, used advb....

4. arenaceo-, comb. form View full entry 1850

...comb. Latin arēnāceus (see arenaceous); = sandy, mixed with sand, as in arenaceo-argillaceous...

5. arenoso-, comb. form View full entry 1848

...comb. Latin arēnōsus, English arenose....

6. argento-, comb. form View full entry 1837-68

...comb. form of Latin argentum silver; = ‘Having silver as a constituent’....

7. arseno-, comb. form View full entry 1854

...combining form of arsenic, or arsenous, in compounds and derivatives....

8. baccato-, comb. form View full entry 1852

...comb. form of baccate, as in baccato-tuberculous, with berry-like tubercles....

9. brevi-, comb. form View full entry 1852

...comb. form of Latin brevis ‘short’, used as the first element of many modern scientific words: as brevipedˈbrɛvɪpɛdLatinpes, ped- footˈbrevipenLatinpenna featherOrnithol....

10. caˈliculato-, comb. form View full entry 1846

...combining form of caliculate...

11. carnoso-, comb. form View full entry 1846

...combining form of Latin carnōsus, used in sense ‘carnose and..’, ‘with carnous modification’; as in carnoso-fibrous, carnoso-tuberose, etc....

12. cespiˈtoso- | caespiˈtoso-, comb. form View full entry 1846

...combining form of prec. = in a cespitose manner, cespitose and ——....

13. clavato-, comb. form View full entry 1848

...comb. form of clavate: as in clavato-elongate, clavato-turbinate etc....

14. clino-, comb. form View full entry 1850

...In names of minerals, as (Dana.)...

15. conoido-, comb. form View full entry 1848

...combining form of conoid, prefixed to adjectives denoting shape, and expressing modification towards the conical form, as in conoido-hemispherical, conoido-rotundate. (Cf. conico-.)...

16. contorto-, comb. form View full entry 1848

...combining form of Latin contortus twisted together....

17. convoˈluto-, comb. form View full entry 1846

...combining form of Latin convolūt-us; = convolutelyconvolute....

18. corrugato-, comb. form View full entry 1846

...combining form of corrugate, as in corrugato-striate, having corrugate striations or stripes....

19. crenulato-, comb. form View full entry 1846

...combining form of modern Latin crēnulātuscrenulate; cf. crenato-....

20. cumulato-, comb. form View full entry 1846

...combining form from Latin cumulātuscumulate, in sense ‘cumulately-’, ‘cumulate and——’, as in, e.g., cumulato-fasciculate, bunched or fasciculate, with aggregation of the fascicles....

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