-coccus
a combining form representing coccus, in compound words:
streptococcus.
-coccus suff.
a microorganism of spherical or spheroidal shape: streptococcus.
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- -coel
variant of coel- as final element of a compound word: enterocoele. also, -cele, -coel. -coel or -coele or -cele suff. chamber; cavity: blastocoel.
- -coele
variant of coel- as final element of a compound word: enterocoele. also, -cele, -coel.
- -colous
a combining form meaning “inhabiting” the thing or place specified by the initial element, used in the formation of compound words: nidicolous. -colous combining form inhabiting or living on arenicolous word origin from latin -cola inhabitant + -ous; related to colere to inhabit
- -core
a combining form extracted from hard-core and used especially to form words that name a rebellious, antimainstream lifestyle, social movement, type of music, etc.: emocore; queercore. -core combining form indicating a type of popular music dancecore combining form indicating the number of processing units working in parallel in a computer dual-core
- -cosm
variant of cosmo- as final element of a compound word: microcosm.