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Word Unit: algesi-, alge-, alges-, algesio-, algi-, algio-, -algesia, -algesic, -algetic, -algic, -algia, -algy (Greek: pain, sense of pain; painful; hurting).

Cross references related to "pain, hurt; suffering, injury" word families: -agra; algo-; angina-; dolor-; Masochism; noci-; odyno-; poen-; pono- (toil, work; pain); Sadism.

Word Unit: algid- + (Latin: cold, chilly).

Related cold, frost; freezing units of words: cheimo-, chimo-; crymo-, krymo-; cryo-, kryo-; frigo-; gel-; pago-; psychro-; rhigo-.

Word Unit: algo-, alg- (Greek: pain).

Cross references related to "pain, hurt; suffering, injury" word families: -agra; algesi-; angina-; dolor-; Masochism; noci-; odyno-; poen-; pono- (toil, work; pain); Sadism.

Word Unit: ali- + (Latin: other, another).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, changing": allo-; alter-; allelo-; hetero-; mut-; poikilo-; reciproc-; vari-.

Word Unit: alimento-, aliment- (Latin: food, nourishment).

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "food, nutrition, nourishment": broma-; carno-; cibo-; esculent-; sitio-; tropho-; Eating Crawling Snacks; Eating: Carnivorous-Plant "Pets"; Eating: Folivory or Leaf Eaters; Eating: Omnivorous.

Word Unit: allanto-, allant- + (Greek: sausage).

Word Unit: allelo-, allel- (Greek: one another, of one another; literally, "the other"; reciprocally; in mutual relation).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, varied, changing": ali-; allo-; alter-; hetero-; mut-; poikilo-; reciproc-; vari-.

Word Unit: allia-, alli-, allium (Latin: garlic bulb; onion).

Word Unit: allo-, all- + (Greek: different, other, another; divergence; a combining form denoting a condition differing from the normal or a reversal, or referring to "another").

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, varied, changing": ali-; alter-; allelo-; hetero-; mut-; poikilo-; reciproc-; vari-.

Word Unit: allotrio- , allotri- + (Greek: different, of or belonging to another; foreign, strange; abnormal; perverse).

Related "foreign, strange" word families: barbar-; xeno-.

Word Unit: Allotriophagy + (an unusual desire to eat "unnatural" items for food).

Word Unit: alopec- + (Greek > Latin: fox; baldness; derived from "mange in foxes"; bald patches on the head).

Links to other hair-related units: barba-; Beards; capillaro-; chaeto-; cirro-; coife; crino-; Hair & Beard Styles; hirsute; pilo-; pogo-; tricho-; villi-.

Word Unit: alpha (Greek: A, a; beginning, first of anything; first letter of the Greek alphabet; used in physics and chemistry to designate a variety of series or values).

Word Unit: alphito-, alphit- (Greek: barly, pearl barley, groats; originally, "white grain").

Word Unit: also-, als- + (Greek: forest, woods, a woodland).

Word Unit: alter- + (Latin: different, other, another; to change).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, varied, changing": ali-; allo-; allelo-; hetero-; mut-; poikilo-; reciproc-; vari-.

Word Unit: alto-, alt-, alti- (Latin: high, highest, tall, lofty).

Word Unit: altrici- (Greek > Latin: nourisher; wet nurse; midwife).

Word Unit: alumino-, alumin- (Latin: aluminum [U.S.] and aluminium, [British]).

Word Unit: alveolo-, alveol-, alve-, alveat- (Latin: trough, channel; small cavity, small pit; hollow).

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract, tube": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; coelio-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; meato-; ora-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; uretero-; urethro-; vagino-; ventricul-.

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