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▸ noun: A prefix in an English word derived from Greek or Latin.
▸ noun: Alternative form of root: the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots. [The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.]
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▸ noun: A prefix in an English word derived from Greek or Latin.
▸ noun: Alternative form of root: the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots. [The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.]
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radical,
intensive,
base,
well-formed,
descendant,
compound,
prefixal,
flectional,
collocate,
suffixal,
reflex
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