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1. dendro-, dendr-, dendri-, -dendria, -dendrite, -dendritic, -dendra, -dendron (Greek: tree, tree-like structure)  (22 matching results)
   
   
2. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Dachongosaurus to Eudkelosaurus [plus one pix], part 4 of 10   (seven matching results)
   
   
3. oleo-, ole-, -oleic, ol- (Greek > Latin: [olive] oil; fat)  (four matching results)
   
   
4. xylo-, xyl- (Greek: wood; the first element of various scientific and technical words that refer to wood)  (three matching results)
   
   
5. -mancy, -mancer (Greek: divination, prophecy) words: spatalamancy to zygomancy, part 9 of 9   (three matching results)
   
   
6. umbra-, umbro-, umbr-, umbel- (Latin: shade, shadow)  (three matching results)
   
   
7. glypto-, -glyph (carving, engrave; write) words: aglyphous to triglyph   (two matching results)
   
   
8. thermo-, -thermy (heat, hot, warm) dictionary words: haematothermia to synthermal, part 2 of 6   (two matching results)
   
   
9. dryo-, dry- (Greek: oak tree; by extension, "tree")  (two matching results)
   
   
10. libr-, libel (Latin: book; originally, the "inner bark of a tree", whence "the text written on this", "collection of leaves for writing", and finally "book")  (two matching results)
    
    
11. The Blind Men and the Elephant  (one matching result)
    
    
12. academ- (Greek > Latin: [originally, Academus Akademus, a name of a hero in Greek mythology; then it became a gymnasium near Athens where Plato taught])  (one matching result)
    
    
13. plano- (drifting, wandering, or roaming): angioplany to superplanetary with planet words from Greek and Latin myths   (one matching result)
    
    
14. philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: abrakophile to autophilous, part 1 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
15. brady- (Greek: slow, slowness; delayed, tardy)  (one matching result)
    
    
16. philo-, -philia (love, fondness for, attraction to) words: dekocerophile to fusiophilist, part 3 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
17. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words  (one matching result)
    
    
18. Chemical Elements words: indium to mendelevium, part 4 of 8   (one matching result)
    
    
19. sal-, sali- (salt) dictionary words: cum grano salis to soused, part 1 of 1   (one matching result)
    
    
20. stygio- (hate, abhorrence; loathsome) dictionary words: stygiophobia to Styx, part 1 of 1   (one matching result)
    
    
21. robor-, rob- (strengthening, invigorate) dictionary words: corroborant to unrobust, part 1 of 1   (one matching result)
    
    
22. eureka (Greek: "I have found ")  (one matching result)
    
    
23. tri-(three, thrice, threefold) dictionary words: triact to tricycle, part 1 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
24. ped-, -pedia (foot, feet) words: palmiped to velocipede, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
25. rami-, ram- (Latin: branch)  (one matching result)
    
    
26. theo-,-theism (God, god, deity) dictionary words: panentheism to theody, part 2 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
27. syco- (Greek > Latin: fig)  (one matching result)
    
    
28. -ose (-iose)  (one matching result)
    
    
29. olive- (Greek > Latin > French: the tree Olea europaea, used in its etymological sense)  (one matching result)
    
    
30. pino-, pin- (Greek: a combining form confused between three Greek roots and may mean "hunger", "dirt", or "drink"; and there is one Latin form referring to the "pine tree")  (one matching result)
    
    
31. phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest) words: macrophagous to ostreophagous, part 3 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
32. -aceous, -acea, -aceae, -aceaen, -aceus (Latin: a suffix; having the quality of, of the nature of, characterized by, belonging to, resembling)  (one matching result)
    
    
33. pomo-, pom-, pomi- (Latin: fruit, fruit tree)  (one matching result)
    
    
34. broma- (food) words: abros to bromatotoxin   (one matching result)
    
    
35. arbor- (Latin: tree)  (one matching result)
    
    
36. acro-, acr- words: acroagnosis to acromyotonia, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
37. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Aachenosaurus to Azendohsaurus [plus one pix], part 2 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
38. codex-, codi-, cod- (Latin: a code of laws, a writing tablet; an account book; originally, "the trunk of a tree")  (one matching result)
    
    
39. -ine [suffix] (similar to, resembling, like, characterized by, of the nature of) words: dacelonine to glassine, part 3 of 7   (one matching result)
    
    
40. acantho-, acanth-, -acanthid, -acanthous, -acanths (Greek: pointed appendages, spine, spiny, thorn, thorny)  (one matching result)
    
    
41. -ine [suffix] (similar to, resembling, like, characterized by, of the nature of) words: belluine to cypseline, part 2 of 7   (one matching result)
    
    
42. techno-, -techny (art, skill, craft): agrotechnology to zymotechnology  (one matching result)
    
    
43. pineal-, pinea- (Latin: pine tree, relating to the pine; shaped like a cone)  (one matching result)
    
    
44. cruci-, crux (Latin: cross, crosslike; from the gallows tree)  (one matching result)
    
    
45. port-, portat- (carry, bring, bear) words: apport-transportation   (one matching result)
    
    
46. vor-, -vorous (eat, eating; consume, ingest) dictionary words: gallivorous to nucivorous, part 2 of 3   (one matching result)
    
    
47. grapho-, graph-, -graphy (to scratch; write, record, draw, describe) words: dactyliography to etymography, part 4 of 11   (one matching result)
    
    
48. corm- (Greek: trunk of a tree or body)  (one matching result)
    
    
49. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: biotechnology to biozone, part 15 of 20   (one matching result)