-opsis
-opsis
a combining form meaning “likeness,” used especially in the names of living organisms and organic structures that resemble the thing named by the initial element: coreopsis.
Origin:
< Greek ópsis appearance, sight
< Greek ópsis appearance, sight
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-opsis
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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World English Dictionary
| -opsis | |
| —n combining form | |
| indicating a specified appearance or resemblance: meconopsis | |
| [from Greek opsis sight] | |
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