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Thematic index: Biological classes

-acea

Groups of animals.

-aceae

Families of seed-bearing plants.

-ales

Orders of plants.

-bacter

A genus of bacteria.

ceto-

A whale.

clado-

A branch or branching.

-coccus

A spherical bacterium.

dino-

Terrible, frightful; dinosaur.

-ella

Genera of bacteria and algae.

-fera

Animal orders or phyla.

-florous

Having flowers of a certain type.

-formes

Orders of animals.

-ida

Taxonomic groups.

-idae

Taxonomic groups.

-ides

Plant and animal genera.

-ina

Forming nouns.

-inae

Animal subfamilies.

-lecithal

Having an egg yolk of a given kind.

lecitho-

Egg yolk.

lepido-

Scales.

lyso-

Disintegration of cells.

-monas

Simple microorganisms.

-morpha

Animal groupings.

-myces

Bacteria or fungi.

-ont

An individual or cell of a specified type.

-pithecus

Genera of fossil apes.

-ptera

Winged animals.

stercor-

Faeces; dung.

taxo-

Order, arrangement, classification.

-therium

An animal genus.

-zoon

Types of animal.

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