macro-, macr-

(Greek: large, great; long [in extent or duration]; enlarged, or elongated, long [in length]; abnormally large)

macroverbumsciolist

1. Someone who is ignorant of large words.
2. A person who pretends to know a word then secretly goes to a dictionary to find out what it means.

Macrurosaurus

A “long-tailed lizard” from Early Cretaceous (near) Cambridge, England. British paleontologist Harry Govier Seeley (1839-1909) in 1869.

photomacrography

1. A technique for investigating and recording conditions and procedures involving small objects that ordinarily would be inspected through a loupe rather than a microscope.
2. Close-up photography at a limiting magnification of 40 times, or in that zone.

Related "big, large, great" words: grand-; magni-; major-; maxi-; mega-; megalo-.

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macro-, macr-

(Greek: large, great; long [in extent or duration]; enlarged, or elongated, long [in length]; abnormally large)

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