-tricha
a combining form meaning “ones having hair” of the kind or number specified by the initial element, used in taxonomic names, especially in taxa of ciliated protozoans:
chonotricha; spirotricha.
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- -trichous
-trichous suff. having a specified kind of hair or hairlike part: peritrichous.
- -tripsy
-tripsy suff. a crushing: lithotripsy.
- -trix
a suffix occurring in loanwords from latin, where it formed feminine nouns or adjectives corresponding to agent nouns ending in -tor, (bellatrix). on this model, -trix, is used in english to form feminine nouns (aviatrix; executrix) and geometrical terms denoting straight lines (directrix). also, -trice. usage note -trix suffix indicating a feminine agent, corresponding to […]
- -tron
a combining form extracted from electron, used with nouns or combining forms, princ-p-lly in the names of electron tubes (ignitron; klystron; magnetron) and of devices for accelerating subatomic particles (cosmotron; cyclotron); also, more generally, in the names of any kind of chamber or apparatus used in experiments (biotron). -tron suffix indicating a vacuum tube magnetron […]
- -trope
a combining form meaning “one turned toward” that specified by the initial element (heliotrope); also occurring in concrete nouns that correspond to abstract nouns ending in -tropy, or -tropism: allotrope. -trope combining form indicating a turning towards, development in the direction of, or affinity to heliotrope word origin from greek tropos a turn -trope comb. […]