词根词缀：clon-, clono-, -cloner, -clonal, -clonally

【来源及含义】Greek: twig; later, in modern usage: "exact duplicate, carbon copy, replica"

【相关描述】As early as 1903, it pertained to plants, borrowed from Greek "twig"; related to "vine, branch, sprout", and "to break". The figurative extension "exact duplicate, carbon copy, replica" is first recorded around 1978.

【同源单词】clon, clonal, clonality, clone, cloner, cloning

词根词缀：pragmato-, pragmat-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: skilled in the law; busy, skilled in business; a thing done; to do, effect, accomplish, practice

【相关描述】It started in Greek with the meanings: "to do, act, perform"; then it meant "civil business, deed, act"; and into Latin as, "skilled in business or law". The meaning concerned with "practical results or values" is first recorded in the form pragmatical (1597) and later as pragmatic in 1853.

The form, "pragmatism", is a philosophy that stresses practical results.

【同源单词】pragmatagnosia, pragmatamnesia, pragmatic, pragmatical, pragmatically, pragmaticalness

词根词缀：veget-, vege-

【来源及含义】Latin: animating, enlivening; vigorous, vigor, active; to be alive, activity, to quicken; then a quickening action of growing; a specific sense of "plant cultivated for food, edible herb, or root" is first recorded in 1767; the differences between the meanings from its original links with "life, liveliness" was completed in the early twentieth century, when vegetable came to be used for an "inactive person".

【同源单词】emergent vegetation, lactovegetarian, ovolactovegetarian, ovovegetarian, vegan, veganism