gamo- 或 gam-
pref.(前缀)
语源
pref.(前缀)
- United; joined:
联合的;接合的:
gamopetalous.
合瓣的 - Sexual:
生殖的:
gamogenesis.
两性生殖
语源
- Greek [marriage]
希腊语 [婚姻] - from gamos * see gemə-
源自 gamos *参见 gemə-
gamo- or (before a vowel) gam-
combining form
indicating sexual union or reproduction
⇒
gamogenesis
united or fused
⇒
gamopetalous
Origin
from Greek gamos marriagegamo-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “joined, united,” “joining, union,” used in the formation of compound words:
gamopetalous.
Origin
combining form representing Greek gámos marriage
Related Words
- gamogenesis
- gamopetalous
- gamophyllous
- gamosepalous
gamo-a word element meaning 'sexual union'.
[combining form representing Greek gamos marriage]1876 Balfour in Encycl. Brit. IV. 142/1The union..may take place by the ovaries alone, while the styles and stigmata remain free, the pistil being then *gamogastrous.
1885 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,Gamogastrous, a term applied to a pistil in which the ovaries are more or less completely united and the respective styles and stigmata remain free.
Ibid. ,*Gamomania, a form of insanity characterised by strange and extravagant proposals for marriage.
1866 Brande & Cox Dict. Sci. etc. II. 10*Gamomorphism, that stage of developement of organised beings in which the spermatic and germinal elements are formed, matured, and generated, in preparation for another act of fecundation, as the commencement of a new genetic cycle.
1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 161Their petals cohere in a long tube of the same nature as that of *gamopetalous Crassulaceae.
1872 Oliver Elem. Bot. i. iv. 36The corolla is gamopetalous and irregular.
Ibid. i. v. 50In this instance the perianth is *gamophyllous.
1880 Baker in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 14The Aloes..are characterized by their gamophyllous perianth.
1889 Gibson Elem. Biol. 132The term *gamophyte will be employed throughout in preference to oophyte, as taking into account both the male and the female sexual organs.
1835 Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 329The word *gamosepalous has been proposed, but it is not much employed.
1860 Oliver Less.Bot. (1873) 29The calyx is gamosepalous; that is, composed of coherent sepals.
ORIGIN: Greek , from gamos marriage: see -o- .
gamo-
— see gam-
— see gam-
gamo-
Prefix
- Forming compound words with the sense of ‘marriage’.
Etymology
Combining form of Ancient Greek γάμος (gámos).