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sacchar-

a combining form meaning “sugar,” used in the formation of technical terms: saccharoid.
Also, especially before a consonant, saccharo-.


Origin:
comb. form repr. ML saccharum Gk sákkharon, ult. < an Indo-Aryan source akin to Prakrit sakkarā < Skt śarkarā; cf. sugar
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