epi-, ep- [before vowels or "h"] (Greek: above, over, on, upon; besides; in addition to; toward; among; used as a prefix).anepigraphous:
Without an inscription; no inscription.
epibasal:
Upper segment of a zygote or embryo, ultimately giving rise to the shoot.
epibasidium:
The part of a heterobasidium which bears sterigmata and is separated by a septum from the hypobasidium.
epibenthic:
Living on the sea bed or on the lake floor.
epibenthos:
1. The community of organisms living at the surface of the sea bed or lake floor.
2. Fauna and flora of sea-bottom between low-water mark and hundred-fathom line or the 200-meter line. epibiont, epibiontic, epibiotic, epibiosis:
1. Living attached to another organism.
2. Surviving, applied to endemic species that are relics of a former flora or fauna; growing on the exterior of living organisms; living on a surface, as of the sea bottom. An antonym is hypobiotic. epiblast:
The outer layer of a gastrula in the embryo of some grasses, a small structure opposite the scutellum, thought to be a rudimentary cotyledon.
epicalyx:
epicanthus:
epicardium:
epicarp:
epicene:
1. Belonging to or having the characteristics of both male and female; such as, "an epicene statue". 2. Effeminate; unmanly. 3. Sexless; neuter. 4. In linguistics, having only one form of the noun for both the masculine and the feminine genders. Also, epicenism. [Middle English, having only one form of the noun for either gender, from Latin epicoenus, previously from Greek epikoinos, "in common"; from epi + koinois, "common"]. epicenter:
epicentral:
epicotyl:
epicranial:
epicranium:
epicritic:
epicure:
epicutis:
epicycle:
epicycloid:
epidemic:
epidemical:
epidemiography:
epidemiologist:
epidemiology:
epidendric:
epidermal:
epidermatoplasty:
epidermis:
epidermitis:
epidermodysplasia:
epidermoid:
epidermolysis:
epidermomycosis:
epifaun:
epifilter:
epifocal:
epigastralgia:
epigastric:
epigastrium:
epigeal:
epigean:
epigenesis:
epigenetic:
epigenous:
epigeotropic:
epigeotropism:
epiglottis:
epigone:
epigram:
epigrammatic:
epigraph:
epigrapher:
epigraphic:
epigraphist:
epigraphy:
epilepsy:
epileptic:
epileptoid:
epilithic:
epilithophyte:
epilithophytic:
epilog:
epilogue:
epiphyll:
epiphyte:
epiphytes:
epiphytology:
epiphytotic:
episode:
episodic:
epistemology:
epitaph:
epithet:
epithetic:
epithetical:
epitome:
epitomize:
epixylous:
epizoic:
epizoicide:
epizoology:
epizoon:
epizoonosis:
epizootic:
epizootiology:
eponym:
One who gives, or is supposed to give, his name to a people, place, or institution; e.g. among the Greeks, the heroes who were looked upon as ancestors or founders of tribes or cities. Also in Latin form eponymus.
eponymic:
eponymy:
eponyous:
epornithic:
epornithology:
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