-opsis
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Something resembling a specified thing:
表示“景色，情景，外观”的意思：
caryopsis.
颖果
语源
- Greek [sight, seeing, like]
希腊语 [视力，风光，象] - from opsis [sight, appearance] * see ok w-
源自 opsis [外观、面容] *参见 ok w-
-opsis
combining form in countable noun
indicating a specified appearance or resemblance
⇒
meconopsis
Origin
from Greek opsis sight-opsis
Word Origin
1
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
Related Words
- coreopsis
- fasciolopsiasis
- phalaenopsis
- ampelopsis
- autopsy
- calliopsis
-opsisa word element indicating apparent likeness, as in coreopsis.
[Greek: appearance, sight]-opsis
noun combining form
(plural -opses or -opsides)
caryopsis
noun combining form
(plural -opses or -opsides)
ETYMOLOGY New Latin, from Greek, from opsis appearance, vision
: structure resembling a (specified) thingcaryopsis
-op·sis
\ˈäpsə̇s\ noun combining form
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, from opsis appearance, vision — more at optic
1.
a. : organism resembling or having a part that resembles a (specified) thing — in generic names
< Chilopsis >
< Ampelopsis >
b. plural -opses : structure resembling a (specified) thing
< caryopsis >
2. plural -opses : -opsia
1.
a.
< Chilopsis >
< Ampelopsis >
b. plural -opses
< caryopsis >
2. plural -opses