词根词缀：bio-, bi-, -bia, -bial, -bian, -bion, -biont, -bius, -biosis, -bium, -biotic, -biotical

【来源及含义】Greek: life; living, live, alive

【相关描述】Don’t confuse this element with another bi- which means "two".

【相关词根词缀】 Related life, live-word units: anima-; -cole; vita-; viva-.

【同源单词】abiatrophy, abiocoen, abiogenesis, abiogenetic, abiogenetically, abiogenic

词根词缀：grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia

【来源及含义】Greek: to scratch; to write, to record, to draw, to describe; that which is written or described

【相关描述】As indicated at the bottom of this page, there are a significantly large number of graphic word-entry groups in this unit. Such an extensive listing is provided to show how important the grapho- element is to the English language.

【相关词根词缀】Related "writing" word units: glypto-; gram-; scrib-, script-.

【同源单词】abdominal aortography, accelerograph, acoustic agraphia, acrography, actinograph, actinography

词根词缀：heter-, hetero-

【来源及含义】Greek: different, other, another, unlike; irregular, abnormal

【相关描述】This Greek element forms many scientific and other terms, often in opposition to homo-. Sometimes it is also the antonym of auto-, homoeo-, iso-, ortho-, and syn-.

【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, varied, changing": ali-; allo-; alter-; allelo-; mut-; poikilo-; reciproc-; vari-.

【同源单词】heteracanth, heteracanthous, heteracmy, heteradelphus, heteradenic, heteralius