Lesson 17: Specialization & Generalization of Meaning

Question 1

CYN-

Answer 1

dog (e.g. cynopodous)

Question 2

HAPL-

Answer 2

single (e.g. haploid)

Question 3

KYM-, CYM-

Answer 3

wave (e.g. cymotrichous)

Question 4

LEMM(A)-

Answer 4

sheath, husk (e.g. myolemma)

Question 5

LOPH-

Answer 5

crest, ridge, tuft (e.g. dilophous)

Question 6

LOPHI-

Answer 6

small crest, lophion (e.g. lophiostomate)

Question 7

LYMPH-

Answer 7

water, lymph (e.g. lymphoblast)

Question 8

MIT-

Answer 8

thread (e.g. mitosis)

Question 9

ORNIS-, ORNITH-

Answer 9

bird (e.g. archaeornis)

Question 10

PALE- (PALAE-)

Answer 10

old, ancient (e.g. paleocranium)

Question 11

PHA-

Answer 11

to speak (e.g. cataphasia)

Question 12

PHEM-

Answer 12

voice (e.g. paraphemia)

Question 13

PHRAG-

Answer 13

to block up, to wall in (e.g. endophragm)

Question 14

PLAN-

Answer 14

wandering (e.g. planet, planoblast)

Question 15

PLEUR-

Answer 15

side, rib, pleura (e.g. pleurodont)

Question 16

-PLO-

Answer 16

folded, fold (as in ‘threefold’) (e.g. diploma, polyploid)

Question 17

PNE(A)-, PNEUST-

Answer 17

breathing (e.g. hyperpnea)

Question 18

RHAPH-, -RRHAPH

Answer 18

to sew, to suture (e.g. raphe)

Question 19

SPA-

Answer 19

to draw, to jerk (e.g. paraspasm)

Question 20

STAPHYL-

Answer 20

bunch of grapes, uvula (e.g. staphylococcus)

Question 21

STETH-

Answer 21

chest (e.g. microstethophone)

Question 22

XEN-

Answer 22

host, stranger, foreigner (e.g. xenolith)