Thematic index of Living world
| acar(o)- | A mite or tick. |
| angi(o)- | Blood or seed vessels. |
| -angium | A container. |
| anth(o)- | A flower or flowers. |
| anthrop(o)- | Human, or of a human being. |
| -anthropy | Human, or humankind. |
| arachn(o)- | A spider or spiders. |
| arbor(i)- | A tree or trees. |
| aux(o)- | Growth or increase. |
| avi- | A bird or birds; flight. |
| bacill- | A bacillus. |
| bacteri(o)- | Bacteria. |
| basidio- | A basidium. |
| bio- | Life; living things. |
| -biosis | A mode of life. |
| blasto- | Germination. |
| botry(o)- | A bunch of grapes. |
| branchio- | Gills. |
| bryo- | Moss. |
| -carp | A fruit or fruiting body. |
| -chaete | A bristle or seta. |
| chel(i)- | A claw. |
| cirr(o)- | A tuft, curl, or tendril. |
| cocci- | A small spherical body. |
| -colous | Living in or preferring a given environment. |
| copro- | Dung or faeces. |
| cyno- | A dog. |
| -cyte | A cell. |
| cyto- | A cell. |
| dendro- | A tree or trees. |
| -dendron | A shrub or tree. |
| eco- | Ecology; the natural environment. |
| entom(o)- | An insect or insects. |
| flor(i)- | A flower or flowers. |
| franken- | Genetically modified. |
| fruct(i)- | Fruit; fructose. |
| fung(i)- | Fungus. |
| gam(o)- | Marriage or union, fertilization or reproduction. |
| -gamy | Marriage, fertilization or reproduction. |
| hipp(o)- | Horse. |
| hylo- | Woodlands or wood; matter. |
| ichthyo- | Fish; fishlike. |
| -idium | A structure in a plant or animal. |
| ligno- | Wood. |
| limn(o)- | Fresh water. |
| myc(o)- | Fungi or fungal. |
| myrmeco- | An ant or ants. |
| myx(o)- | Mucus. |
| -nasty | Nastic movement. |
| nuci- | A nut. |
| oo- | An egg or ovum. |
| ophi(o)- | A snake. |
| ornith(o)- | A bird or birds. |
| ovi- | Eggs, ova. |
| -parous | Bearing; producing. |
| partheno- | Without fertilization. |
| -ped | Having feet of a given type or number. |
| pedi- | Foot. |
| -petal | Seeking; moving towards. |
| phag(o)- | Feeding, eating. |
| -phagy | Feeding or subsisting on a specified food. |
| -phyceae | Alga. |
| phyco- | Seaweeds and algae. |
| -phyll | Leaf. |
| phyll(o)- | Leaf. |
| -phyte | A plant or plant-like organism. |
| phyto- | A plant. |
| pinn(i)- | Wings, fins, or feathers. |
| pisc(i)- | Fish. |
| -plasm | Growth or development; living substance; tissue. |
| -pod | Foot or feet. |
| pterido- | A fern. |
| ptero- | A wing. |
| pteryg(o)- | Wing-like. |
| rhizo- | A root or roots. |
| rhyncho- | Snout or beak. |
| sapro- | Putrefaction or decay. |
| -saur | Reptiles, especially extinct ones. |
| saur(o)- | Lizard. |
| scato- | Dung or excrement. |
| -sepalous | Having sepals of a given type. |
| seti- | A bristle. |
| siphon(o)- | Siphon. |
| -sperm | Seed. |
| spongio- | A sponge; sponge-like. |
| -spore | A spore. |
| spor(o)- | A spore. |
| squam(o)- | A scale. |
| stomat(o)- | The mouth; a opening. |
| -stome | A mouth. |
| taeni- | Ribbon; tapeworm. |
| tauro- | Ox or bull. |
| -taxis | Arrangement or order; movement in response to an external stimulus. |
| -tene | Stages in cell division. |
| thall(o)- | A thallus; thallium. |
| theri(o)- | An animal. |
| -trichous | Hairy; having hair. |
| -trophic | Nutrition; feeding. |
| troph(o)- | Nourishment. |
| -tropism | Preferential growth or movement of an organism. |
| uro-1 | The tail or the tail part of the body. |
| vermi- | A worm. |
| vivi- | Alive; living. |
| -vore | An organism living on a given type of food. |
| zoo- | Animal; animal life. |
| zygo- | Joining or pairing. |
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