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Word Unit: penni-, pen- (Latin: almost, nearly).

Related "feather, feather-like; soft down, plumage" word units: penna-; plum-, -plume; pterido-; ptero-; ptilo-.

Word Unit: penta-, pent-, pente-, pento- (Greek: five; a number used as a prefix).

Word Unit: penthera-; penthero- (Greek: mother-in-law; father-in-law).

Word Unit: pepto-, pept-, -peptic, pepsi-, -pepsia, -pepsy (Greek: digestion, able to digest; cook; from "to cook, boil, digest").

Word Unit: per- (Latin: through, across, over; beyond, by means of).

Word Unit: peri- + (Greek: around, about, near, enclosing, surrounding; more often used as a prefix).

Related "around, round, surrounding" units: ambi-; ampho-; circ-; circum-; cyclo-, -cycle; gyro-.

Word Unit: perine-, perineo- + (Greek: space between the scrotum or mons veneris and the anus).

Word Unit: perisso-, periss- + (Greek: extraordinary; superfluous, redundant; odd, odd-numbered).

Word Unit: peristera-, perister- + (Greek: pigeon, dove).

Word Unit: perit-, perien- (Latin: test, tested; try).

Word Unit: pero- + (Greek: maimed, crippled; deformed, malformed).

Word Unit: persever- + (Latin: to continue steadfastly, to persist).

Word Unit: person-, parson- (Latin: human being; originally, character in a drama, mask ).

Word Unit: pessim- (Latin: bad, worst).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "bad, wrong": caco-, kako-; dys-; mal-; mis-; sceler-.

Word Unit: pesti-, pest- + (Latin: plague, contagion).

Word Unit: peta- [PE tuh] (Greek: derived from penta-, "five"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements).

Word Unit: petalo-, petal- (Greek: leaf; from the adjective petalos, "flat, spread out").

Word Unit: -petalous (Greek: in botany, a suffix combining form meaning, "having a certain number or a certain shape of petals").

Word Unit: peti-, pet-, -pit- (Latin: to aim at, aim for, go toward; seek, seek out, ask, request; strive after).

Word Unit: petro-, petr-, petri-, peter- (Greek > Latin: stone, rock).

Related "stone, rock" word families: lapid-; litho-; saxi-; stele-.

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