-carpic
a combination of -carp and -ic used in the formation of adjectives from stems in -carp:
endocarpic.
-carpic
combining form
a variant of -carpous
-carpous
combining form
(in botany) indicating a certain kind or number of fruit apocarpous
word origin
from new latin -carpus, from greek karpos fruit
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- -carpous
a combining form meaning “fruited,” “having fruit, fruiting bodies, or carpels of a given sort,” as specified by the initial element: apocarpous. -carpous combining form (in botany) indicating a certain kind or number of fruit apocarpous word origin from new latin -carpus, from greek karpos fruit
- -ce
a multiplicative suffix occurring in once, twice, thrice.
- -cele
a combining form meaning “tumor,” used in the formation of compound words: variocele. -cele2 variant of -coele: blastocele. -cele combining form tumour or hernia hydrocele word origin from greek kēlē tumour -cele 1 suff. tumor; hernia: cystocele. -cele 2 suff. variant of -coel.
- -cene
variant of ceno-1. as final element of a compound word: pleistocene. -cene combining form, combining form denoting a recent geological period miocene word origin from greek kainos new
- -centric
a combining form with the meanings “having a center or centers” of the specified number or kind (polycentric); “centered upon, focused around” that named by the first element (ethnocentric; heliocentric). -centric suffix having a centre as specified heliocentric word origin abstracted from eccentric, concentric, etc -centric from gk. kentrikos “pertaining to a center,” from kentron […]