psilo-, psil- +
(Greek: bare, making bare, stripping; smooth, plain; mere, merely)
Used by biologists and ecologists with the sense of "prairie" or "savannah"; a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions.
psilad
A prairie plant.
psilanthropist
Someone who believes that Jesus was not divine but merely a man.
psilanthropy, psilanthropism
The belief that Jesus Christ was not divine but merely a man, although divinely inspired.
psilicole, psilicolous
Dwelling in prairie or savannah habitats.
psilodermatous
Having the skin naked or without scales; such as, an amphibian of the Psiloderma.
psiloi
In Greek antiquity, light-armed troops equipped with weapons or missiles, but wearing no defensive armor.
psilology
Mere noise or empty talk.
psilomelane, psilomelanic
1. Any mixture of black manganese oxide minerals.
2. Smooth hydrous manganese oxide compositions.
3. A common ore of manganese, a hydrated oxide, occurring in smooth black amorphous masses, or in botryoidal or stalactitic shape.
4. Etymology: Greek psilos, "bare" plus melanos, "black".
psilopedic, psilopaedic (British)
In ornithology, a reference to a bird that hatches naked or without down (with no soft fluffy feathers).
psilophilous, psilophile, psilophily
In biology, thriving in prairie or savannah habitats.
psilophyte
1. Any plant of the savanna (psilos, "without trees").
2. Any of a division (Psilophyta) of simple vascular plants with upright branches that appeared in the early Paleozoic period and were the first of the land plants.
psilophytic
A reference to psilophytes; psilophytic flora.
psilosis
1. Stripping bare of hair.
2. A term for hair that is falling off; depilation.
psilosopher
1. A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.
2. Someone who professes to have knowledge or education which he/she, in fact, does not have.
psilosophy
1. Shallow philosophy.
2. Limited or superficial knowledge.
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