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Syllabus Mammals Mammal Grades Things to Turn In

 

  Latin Root Meaning
1 Arbor Tree
2 arvi Field
3 carni Meat or flesh
4 Cepha or cephal Head
5 cervus Deer
6 chiro Hand
7 cide Kill (homicide)
8 circa About
9 copr dung
10 dactyl Finger or toe
11 dia across
12 Dies (as in circadian) Day, 24 hours
13 don or dont tooth
14 ecto External
15 endo Within
16 epi on
17 eu True
18 fugis To flee
19 hemi half
20 Hetero different
21 homo Alike (or man as in Homo sapiens)
22 idae From the family of
23 lucis light
24 mamma Breast
25 micro small
26 morph Shape or form
27 myos Mouse
28 noctu Night, moon or owl
29 omni all
30 otos Ear
31 pseud FALSE
32 pteron Wing
33 rufa Reddish
34 skia (from sciuridae) shadow
35 sylvi Woods
36 vesper Evening
37 vora eat
38 trema hole
39 ungul hoof or claw
40 con dust or ashes
41 cetus large sea creature
42 lept small
43 melan black
44 lact milk
45 pinn feather