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-phore

-phore

a combining form meaning “bearer of,” “thing or part bearing” that specified by the initial element: gonophore.
Compare -phorous.


Origin:
< Neo-Latin -phorus < Greek -phoros bearing, verbid of phérein; see bear1
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-phore is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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-phore
 
n combining form
indicating a person or thing that bears or produces: gonophore; semaphore
 
[from New Latin -phorus, from Greek -phoros bearing, from pherein to bear]
 
-phorous
 
adj combining form

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-phore suff.
Bearer; carrier: chromatophore.

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