词根词缀：amoebo-, amoeb-, amoebi-, amebo-, ameb-, amebi-, -amoeba, -ameba

【来源及含义】Greek: change, alteration; return, exchange

【相关描述】Used in the sense "of or pertaining to a one-celled protozoan because it changes shape as it moves and feeds".

【同源单词】acanthamebiasis, acanthamoeba, amebic, amebic dysentery, amebic gangrene, amebic granulomatosis

词根词缀：-cide, -cides, -cidal

【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; kill, killer; murder, to cause death, slayer; cutter; “to cut down”

【相关描述】Don’t confuse this element with the another -cide that means “to cut”; although -cide, “death”, is related to -cise, -cide, “to cut down”.

【相关词根词缀】 Related "death, dead; kill" units: lethal-; mort-; neci-; necro-; phono-; thanato-.

【同源单词】aborticide, acaricide, adulticide, algaecide, algicide, algiocide