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phylo-

prefix

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti Ancient Greek φύω (phúō) Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon)der. English phylo- From Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”).

  1. derived from φῦλον

Definitions

  1. tribes, races or phyla

  2. genus, species, when referring to living organisms

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phylo-. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA