syn-, sy-, sym-, syl-, sys-

(Greek: with, together with; also by extension: united; same, similar; at the same time)


symphily, symphilic, symphilism
1. An amicable relationship between one organism [the symphile] and its host colony of social insects.
2. An insect that lives with ants or other social insects as a guest in a relationship of symphilism.
3. A term for a kind of friendly symbiosis or commensalism existing between ants or termites and certain other insects; such as, certain beetles that they feed and tend as guests and which, in some cases, yield a sweet substance as food for the hosts.
symphonic
1. Of, pertaining to, or having the form or character of a symphony.
2. Possibly also applied to a shorthand sign denoting more than one sound.
symphonious
1. Being in a state of accord; in harmonious agreement or accord.
2. Harmonious in sound; as in "the symphonic hum of a million insects" or "symphonious of ten thousand harps".
symphonist
A composer of symphonies .
symphony
1. Music in parts, sung or played by a number of performers with pleasing effect; concerted or harmonious music.
2. An elaborate orchestral composition in three or more movements, originally developed from the operative overture, similar in form to a sonata, but usually of grander dimensions and broader style.
3. A concert by a symphony orchestra.
symphoricarpus
Symphoromia
symphyocephalus
symphyogenetic
Symphyrosaurus
This nomenclature (“fused-roof lizard”) is no longer recognized by scientists because they found that it described an animal that was previously given another name which is Camptosaurus.
symphyseal
symphyseorrhaphy
symphyses
1. A growing together of bones originally separate, as of the two pubic bones or the two halves of the lower jawbone.
2. An articulation in which bones are united by cartilage without a synovial membrane.
symphysial
symphysic

Related-word units meaning same: auto-; equ-; homeo-; homo-; iso-; pari-; peer-; tauto-.


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