-phore


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

Origin of -phore

1
<New Latin -phorus<Greek -phoros bearing, verbid of phérein;see bear1

Words Nearby -phore

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How to use -phore in a sentence

  • Now all this is what actually takes place in words like hmo-ptysis (spitting of blood), sema-phore (a sort of telegraph).

    A Handbook of the English Language | Robert Gordon Latham

British Dictionary definitions for -phore

-phore

n combining form
  1. indicating a person or thing that bears or produces: gonophore; semaphore

Origin of -phore

1
from New Latin -phorus, from Greek -phoros bearing, from pherein to bear

Derived forms of -phore

  • -phorous, adj combining form

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