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词根词缀:calci-, calc-, calcane-, calcio-, calco-, calcar-, calx

【来源及含义】Latin: lime, calcium; heel, bone of the tarsus; to tread [derived from calx, calcis, limestone, lime, pebble; from Greek words halix and psephos meaning "small stone, pebble"]

【同源单词】a capite ad calcem, acalculia, astragalocalcanean, calcaneal, calcanean, calcaneitis

词根词缀:calyc-, calyci-, calyx-

【来源及含义】Greek: shell; husk; cup [of a flower], used primarily in the specialized senses of "pertaining to or of a cup-shaped bodily organ or cavity"; also a reference to the "cup-shaped ring of sepals encasing a flower bud"

【同源单词】calicectomy, calycanthemous, calyces, calyciflorous, calyciform, calycine

词根词缀:-ine

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: a suffix that is used to form hundreds of words that mean: similar to, resembling, like, characterized by, or of the nature of

【相关描述】This element is also utilized to form abstract nouns; feminine common nouns; and it is used in chemistry to form names of alkaloids and bases or names of elements.

【同源单词】absinthine, acanthine, acarine, accipitrine, acephaline, acervuline