S	T	U - Z
sacchar- sugar saccul- little sac sacr- sacred sagitta- arrow sal- salt sanguini- bloody sapon- soapy sarc- flesh sativus- cultivated saur- lizard scala- ladder scalene- uneven scaph- anything hollow, bowl, ship schizo- split scler- hard scop- gaze, small owl, broom, shadow scut- shield scyph- cup seba- tallow, wax sect- cut segetum- in cornfields selen- moon sella- saddle, seat semi- half sept- seven, wall ser(olu)- any body fluid serot- late serrat- saw-toothed set- hair sex- six simi- monkey sinus- hollow, bay sipho- tube sol- sun soma- body somni- sleep specios- showy sperm- seed sphen- wedge sphinct- closing spinos- spiny spondyl- vertebra squalid- squalid squam- scale squarros- spreading at tips stae(rlt)- fat sta(silt)- standing steg- covering stell- star steno- narrow stereo- solid steril- sterile stern- breastbone stom- mouth strat- layer strept- twisted strictus- upright, stiff strigos- having stiff bristles stroph- turning styl- column sub- below sucr- sugar sulc- furrow super- beyond supin- lying back supra- above sutur- seam sym- with syn- with syrin(glx)- pipe sys- with	tachy- fast tact- touch taenia- ribbon talus- ankle tapetum- carpet tard- late tarsus- ankle tect- covered tegmen- covering tel (e/o)- far, end teleo- complete temno- cut tenacul- holding tentor- spread like a tent tenuis- slender ter(ti)- three teres- round tetr- four textilis- of textiles thalam- chamber, bed thalass- sea theca- case thel- nipple, female therm- heat thero- breast, mammal thyreo- large shield tinctori- of dyes torn- cut tomentos- densely woolly torpe- numb toxo- arrow, dart trab- beam trachy- rough trago- goat trans- across trapez- four sided, table trema- hole tremulans- trembling tri- three trich- hair trivialis- trivial troch- wheel trop- turning troph- feed tussi- cough	uliginosus- in marshes -ul- diminutive ulo- wooly ultra- above umbilic- navel un- one unc- hook ungui- nail, claw ungul- hoof, claw urens- bum uro- tail urs- of bears utricul- little skin bag uv(ela)- grapes vagina- sheath vagus- wandering vas- vessel velum- veil ven- vein ventr- belly verd- green veris- true verm- worm vern- spring versi- various vesic- blister vesper- evening, western vill- shaggy hair, velvet virens- green visc- organs of body cavity vita- life vitell- yolk vitr- glass vora- devour vulgaris- common vulp- fox xanth- yellow xen- stranger xer- dry xiphi- sword xyl- wood zo- animal zon- girdle zyg- yoke

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