Word.ws English Dictionary

phyco-

phyco- prefix: seaweed or algae.

Prefix

phyco-

  1. seaweed or algae.

Origin of phyco-

From combining form of Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”).

Questions about phyco-

What does phyco- mean?
Phyco- means seaweed or algae.
What part of speech is phyco-?
Phyco- is a prefix.

Words near phyco- in the dictionary

  1. phycids
  2. phycite
  3. phycites
  4. phycitid
  5. phycitids
  6. phyco-
  7. phycobilin
  8. phycobilins
  9. phycobiliprotein
  10. phycobiliproteins
  11. phycobilisome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phyco- (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “phyco-.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/phyco-. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.