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-logy
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
-mancy
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form denoting divination; as, aleuromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
-morphous
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form denoting form, shape; as, isomorphous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
-plasty
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form denoting the act or process of forming, development, growth; as, autoplasty, perineoplasty.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
-some
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Ammonite
noun · 78% connection
A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having ex…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Argonaut
noun · 78% connection
Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Baculite
noun · 78% connection
A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Belemnite
noun · 78% connection
A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinaril…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Calamary
noun · 78% connection
A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Circumflex
noun · 78% connection
A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Cuttlefish
noun · 78% connection
A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Devilfish
noun · 78% connection
A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Gerund
noun · 78% connection
A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Gutturo-
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form denoting relation to the throat; as, gutturo-nasal, having both a guttural and a nasal character; gutturo-palatal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Hamite
noun · 78% connection
A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Head
noun · 78% connection
The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
Heroicomical
adjective · 78% connection
Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: combining, denoting, head, connected, cephalosome.
