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The numbers that are shown in the parentheses indicate how many of your word queries appear in each category.

1. terr-, -ter (Latin: earth, dry land, land)  (two matching results)
   
   
2. thalasso-, thalass-, thalassi-, thalassio-, thalatto-, thalatt- (Greek: sea)  (two matching results)
   
   
3. oceano-, ocean- (Greek > Latin: "the great river encompassing the whole earth"; hence, the "great Outward Sea" [as opposed to the "Inward" or Mediterranean]; the ocean)  (one matching result)
   
   
4. amphora word and the @ symbol  (one matching result)
   
   
5. acantho-, acanth-, -acanthid, -acanthous, -acanths (Greek: pointed appendages, spine, spiny, thorn, thorny)  (one matching result)
   
   
6. -ine [suffix] (similar to, resembling, like, characterized by, of the nature of) words: absinthine to axine, part 1 of 7   (one matching result)
   
   
7. bentho-, benth- (deep, depth; sea bottom) words: abyssobenthic to zoobenthos  (one matching result)