-tene
a combining form meaning “ribbon,” used in biology to form compound nouns that refer to the shape or number of chromosomes involved in meiosis:
leptotene; pachytene; diplotene.
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-teria related terms -ateria
- -termer
noun (in combination) a person serving a specified length of time in prison a short-termer
- -th
a suffix forming nouns of action (birth) or abstract nouns denoting quality or condition (depth; length; warmth). -th2 a suffix used in the formation of ordinal numbers (fourth, tenth), in some cases, added to altered stems of the cardinal (fifth; twelfth). origin -th3 variant of -eth1 : doth. -eth2 suffix a variant of -th2 twentieth […]
- -there
a combining form meaning “wild animal, beast,” used in the formation of compound words, usually denoting extinct mammals, as adaptions of zoological taxa ending in -therium or -theria: baluchithere.
- -therm
variant of thermo- as final element in compound words: isotherm. -therm suff. an organism having a specified kind of body temperature: exotherm.