stego-, steg-, stegano- +

In invertebrate zoology, overlaid with two series of spines.

Obstruction of a nasal passage.

Analyzing and deciphering steganographic or secret writing.

A cryptogram or coded message.

Someone who practices the art of writing in cipher.

1. Defined in dictionaries as the art of writing in ciphers or characters that are not intelligible, except to the persons who correspond with each other; cryptography (secret writing).
2. The art and science of communicating in a way that hides the existence of the communication. Steganography attempts to hide messages inside other harmless messages in such a way that third parties cannot even detect the existence of the concealed message.
3. The science of communicating in a way that hides the existence of the actual communication. The practice of hiding information in a wider bandwidth carrier. This field covers the techniques used in digital watermarking schemes.
4. In cryptography, steganography refers to not only obfuscating (encrypting) data, but hiding the fact that it even exists.
5. The art and science of hiding information by embedding messages within other, seemingly harmless messages.

More details about steganography.

For other "secret" words, see: crypto-.

A bird belonging to the group Steganopodes, which includes the pelicans, cormorants, frigate-birds, gannets, tropic-birds, and snake birds.

1. Having feet completely webbed; totipalmate [toh TIP uhl mayt"] (Latin: totus, all; palma, palm of hand. Having feet completely webbed).
2. Belonging to the group Steganopodes.

1. An order of vertebrates that include totipalmate swimming birds with totally webbed feet.
2. An alternative name for Pelacaniformes (an order of birds comprising a large number of fish-eating types including cormorants, gannets, pelicans, frigate-birds, etc. Their feet are webbed and have four toes).

1. The closing of a passage; astringent or constipating.
2. A stoppage of any of the secretions or excretions.
3. A constriction or stenosis.

Having the capsule operculate (a dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel that splits partly open at maturity supplied with a lid or covering).

Any of the various extinct elephant-like mammals of the genus Stegodon and related genera, of the Pliocene to the Pleistocene. The creature was named with steg + -odon, "tooth, teeth", because of the distinctive ridges on its molars.

A subgenus of the genus Aedes of mosquitoes; inclukdes a principal vector of yellow fever, Aedes aegypti.

Any of several herbivorous dinosaurs of the suborder Stegosauria of the Jurassic to the Cretaceous, having a double row of upright bony plates along the back, long hind legs, a short neck, and a relatively small head.

A “roof” or “roofed (plated) lizard” from Late Jurassic Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming (USA). This creature was formerly called a Diracodon. Named by Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) in 1877.