词根词缀：acantho-, acanth-, -acanth, -acanths, -acanthid, -acanthous

【来源及含义】Greek: used either as a prefix or as a suffix; pointed appendages; spine, spiny; thorn, thorny

【同源单词】acanth, acantha, acanthaceous, acanthamebiasis, acanthamoeba, acanthesthesia

词根词缀：-ous, -ious, -eous

【来源及含义】Latin: full of or having the qualities of; in chemistry, a suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.

【相关描述】Only a small number of the hundreds of examples are presented because there are just too many to include at this time.

【同源单词】abdominous, abiogenous, ablepharous, abstemious, acanthaceous, acanthocephalous

词根词缀：phoro-, phor-, -phora, -phorous, -phoresis, -phore, -phori, -phoria

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: bearer, to bear, carrying; producing, transmission; directing, turning; originally to carry or to bear children

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word families related to "bear, carry, bring": duc-; -fer; ger-; later-, -lation; port-.

【同源单词】acanthophorous, actinophorous, adenophorous, aerophora, aerophore, allophore