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1. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
2. gyno-, comb. form View full entry 1623
...reduced form of gynaeco-, used chiefly in botantical terms with the meaning ‘pistil’, ‘ovary’ (the more important are given as main-words):...
3. -istan, comb. form View full entry 1990
...= -stan....
4. omni-, comb. form View full entry 1593
...Forming compounds in which the first element has the sense ‘in all ways or places’, or ‘of all things’....
5. omphalo-, comb. form View full entry 1652
...Forming words with the sense ‘of, relating to, or connected with the navel or umbilicus’....
6. para-, comb. form View full entry 1940
...Forming nouns, with the senses ‘dropped by parachute; trained or equipped for descending by parachute; resembling or adapted from a parachute’....
7. podo-, comb. form View full entry 1656
...Of or relating to a foot or feet, or a footlike structure....
8. poly-, comb. form View full entry 1607
...Used as a freely productive prefix, chiefly in scientific and technical use, with the senses ‘many, much’, ‘having, involving, containing, consisting of, etc., many’, where many variously connotes ‘two or...
9. pseudo-, comb. form View full entry a1425
...Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘false, pretended, counterfeit, spurious, sham; apparently but not really, falsely or erroneously called or represented, falsely, spuriously’....
10. sacro-, comb. form1 View full entry 1772
...assumed as combining form of Latin sacer sacred, in various nonce-words....
11. sidero-, comb. form1 View full entry 1794
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12. -stan, comb. form View full entry 1960
...Used as the second element in fictitious place names with the sense ‘the notional realm or domain dominated by or centred around ——’, ‘a world typified or characterized by ——’....
13. tweedle-, comb. form View full entry 1725
...the stem of tweedle, employed in combination with other elements (see below) to denote the action of the verb, or a high-pitched musical sound; chiefly in the humorous phrase ...
14. whip-, comb. form View full entry a1529
...Combinations of the n....
