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-merous
-merous
See also: mérous
English
Suffix
-merous
- (biology, forming adjectives) Having parts of the specified quality.
- (chiefly botany and zoology, forming adjectives) Comprising the specified number of parts.
Usage notes
- In biological descriptions, it is common to use numbers instead the Greek prefixes.
Derived terms
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References
- “-merous” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
- “-merous, comb. form” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, June 2010)