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

1. andro-, andr- (man, men, male, masculine; also, stamen) words: adynamandrous to andron, part 1 of 2   (two matching results)
   
   
2. tacho-, tachy- (fast, speed, swift) dictionary words: acestachy to tachyzoite, part 1 of 1   (two matching results)
   
   
3. tribo-, trib- (Greek: friction, rub, rubbing, grind, wear away; spend, waste time; be busy)  (one matching result)
   
   
4. ichthyo-, ichthy-, -ichth- (fish) words: ichthyarchy to ichthytaxidermy   (one matching result)
   
   
5. crypto-, crypt- (secret, hidden) words: allocryptic to xylocryptite  (one matching result)
   
   
6. hetero-, heter- (different, other, another, unlike) words: heterolysis to heterozoic, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
   
   
7. brady- (Greek: slow, slowness; delayed, tardy)  (one matching result)
   
   
8. phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest): acridophage to dysphagia, part 1 of 4   (one matching result)
   
   
9. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Dachongosaurus to Eudkelosaurus [plus one pix], part 4 of 10   (one matching result)
   
   
10. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words  (one matching result)
    
    
11. presbyo-, presby- (Greek: old, relationship to old age, elderly, elder; literally, he that goes first)  (one matching result)
    
    
12. mania-, -mania (mental disorder; excessive enthusiasm) words: ecdemiomania to krauomania, part 2 of 4   (one matching result)
    
    
13. typo-, typ-, -type (Greek: a blow; impression; a mold)  (one matching result)
    
    
14. gyno-, gyn- (woman, women, female, females): gynemimetophilia to trigynous, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
15. Plankton words: acroplankton to phytioplankton, part 1 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
16. bosci, bosc- (Greek > Latin: to feed, graze)  (one matching result)
    
    
17. neusto-, neust-, -neuston, -neustonic (Greek: swim, float)  (one matching result)
    
    
18. poly- (many, much; excessive) words: polymastia to polyzoan, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
19. thermo-, -thermy (heat, hot, warm) dictionary words: haematothermia to synthermal, part 2 of 6   (one matching result)
    
    
20. Plankton words: phytoplankton to zooplankton, part 2 of 2   (one matching result)
    
    
21. myrmeco-, myrmec-, myrme-, myrmic-, myrmi- (Greek: ant, ants)  (one matching result)
    
    
22. scintill- (Latin: light, shine, spark, sparkle, twinkle)  (one matching result)
    
    
23. aesth-, esth- (feeling, sensation, perception) words: baresthesia to dysthermesthesia, part 2 of 5   (one matching result)
    
    
24. sauro-, -saurian (lizard, serpent) words: Dinosaurs Saurornithelestes to Szechuanosaurus, part 9 of 10   (one matching result)
    
    
25. phono-, -phonia (sound, voice, speech) words: earphone to neurophonia, part 2 of 5   (one matching result)
    
    
26. botul-, botuli- (Latin: [botulus] sausage)  (one matching result)
    
    
27. umbra-, umbro-, umbr-, umbel- (Latin: shade, shadow)  (one matching result)
    
    
28. gymno-, gymn- (Greek: naked, nude, uncovered, bare, exposed, unclad, disrobed, undressed)  (one matching result)
    
    
29. laparo-, lapar- (Greek: the soft part of the body between the ribs and the hip, flank, loin; denotes the flank or loins and the abdominal wall)  (one matching result)
    
    
30. -ine [suffix] (similar to, resembling, like, characterized by, of the nature of) words: belluine to cypseline, part 2 of 7   (one matching result)
    
    
31. allo-, all- (Greek: different, other, another; divergence)  (one matching result)
    
    
32. -ine [suffix] (similar to, resembling, like, characterized by, of the nature of) words: absinthine to axine, part 1 of 7   (one matching result)
    
    
33. bentho-, benth- (deep, depth; sea bottom) words: abyssobenthic to zoobenthos  (one matching result)
    
    
34. jejuno-, jejun- (Latin: the fasting [intestine], the portion of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum [so named because early anatomists typically found this organ to be empty in dissection]; original meaning, "hungry, not partaking of food")  (one matching result)
    
    
35. bio-, bi- (life; living, live, alive) words: calobiosis to eremobiontic, part 16 of 20   (one matching result)
    
    
36. puber-, pubo-, pub-, pubio- (Latin: adult, mature; sign of [sexual] maturity, especially the growth of pubic hair; extended to mean the "pubic bone")  (one matching result)
    
    
37. klepto-, clepto-, klept-, clept words: biblioklept to myrmecoclepty  (one matching result)
    
    
38. phago-, -phagia, -phagy (eat, eating; consume, ingest) words: Echidnophaga to lithophage, part 2 of 4   (one matching result)