-phore Definition

fôr, fōr
suffix
Bearer; carrier.
Chromatophore.
American Heritage
affix
Bearer, producer.
Carpophore.
Webster's New World

Origin of -phore

  • From Greek -phoros bearing from pherein to carry bher-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • ModL -phorus, -phorum < Gr -phoros, -phoron < pherein, to bear

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

-phore Sentence Examples

  • In other Entoprocta the buds on a horseshoe retain a high degree of individuality, a shaped l o p h o - thread-like stolon giving off the cylindrical phore; stalks, each of which dilates at its end i, Ectocyst; into the body of a zooid.

  • A tentaculocyst (" colleto-cysto- o, phore" or " marginal anchor ") se, seen from the subumbral side.

  • Huxley viewed them as equivalent to and on a level with the larvae of Echinoderms, and of such other trocho phore larvae as resem-???,, ally adopted.

  • The pneumato phore arises from the ectoderm as a pit or invagination, part of which forms a gas-secreting gland, while the rest gives rise to an air-sack lined by a chitinous cuticle.

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