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-idium

-idium suffix: reproductive organs, gametes, and early life stages.

Suffix

-idium

  1. (most common) reproductive organs, gametes, and early life stages
    • basidium, spermidium, planidium, meconidium, glochidium
  2. sensory organs, mainly of arthropods
    • scolopidium, ommatidium, (not arthropodan) sphaeridium
  3. various segments (arthropods) and functional processes
    • stethidium, chilidium, limbidium, phyllidium, gonidium
  4. respiratory organs
    • ctenidium, taenidium
  5. (marginal) cellular compartments
    • chromidium, cytoophidium

Origin of -idium

From Ancient Greek -ίδιον (-ídion, “diminutive”).

Words formed from -idium

Questions about -idium

What does -idium mean?
-idium means reproductive organs, gametes, and early life stages.
What part of speech is -idium?
-idium is a suffix.

Words near -idium in the dictionary

  1. -ide
  2. -idene
  3. -idian
  4. -idine
  5. -idion
  6. -idium
  7. -ido
  8. -ie
  9. -ied
  10. -ienne
  11. -iennes

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